Shang 101
Chinese dynasties believed in many gods.
What is polytheistic (polytheism)?
The longest dynasty in ancient China.
What is the Zhou?
The saddle, stirrups, irrigation systems, expansion of trade.
What are Zhou achievements?
This made it hard to govern but also protected them.
What is China's natural barriers (mountains and deserts?
The dynasty that their are stories about, but no real proof it ever existed.
What is the Xia?
Archaeologists found food, weapons, servants, etc. buried with Shang kings, which proved the Shang believed in an ___________.
What is afterlife?
Rulers carried out these to please the gods.
What are religious ceremonies?
The river the first Chinese settled along.
What is the Huang He (or Yellow) River?
The Shang used this technology to make strong helmets.
What is that they shaped a mixture of copper and tin to make bronze?
This is the belief created under the Zhou that the person in power was ruling because the gods wanted it.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Under tenant farming in China, the ______________ were known as the upper class who controlled the land.
Who are aristrocrats?
The cause of the Chinese's unique culture.
What is the separation from other civilizations by natural barriers?
This was used an achievement that discovered during this dynasty and used to make cloth.
What is silk?
The person in charge of contacting the gods and ancestors.
What is the ruler?
The reason for one of the Huang He River's nicknames as the "river of sorrows."
What is the flooding that causes destruction?
If two nobles from distant parts of China met during the Shang dynasty, the best way for them to communicate with each other would be by... ________, because _____.
What is by writing, the Shang invented a writing system?
The time period after the Zhou Dynasty when the aristocrats began to fight against one another.
What is The Warring Period?
What are military, religion, and politics?
This soil gives the Huang He River its nickname as the Yellow River.
What is loess?