Ancient India Geography
What are monsoons?
Fine, dustlike material that can form soil.
What is loess?
Pictures that represent words or ideas.
What are pictographs?
Oracle bones were carved out of _______ and _________
The Mandate of Heaven was a dynasty's right to _______.
What is rule?
A main river and all of the other rivers and streams that drain into it.
What is a river system?
This ancient Chinese civilization began the building of the Great Wall of China.
What is the Qin Dynasty?
A symbol that is used to represent a number.
What is a numeral?
A ruling family that holds power for many years.
What is a dynasty?
A set of beliefs about the world and how to live.
What is Philosophy?
A large landmass that is set apart from the rest of the continent.
What is a subcontinent?
What is mountains and deserts?
A fixed social class into which a person is born.
What is a caste? (will take caste system)
Period of the Zhou Dynasty that marked brutal and destructive conflict.
What is the Warring States Period.
This collection of stories, hymns, and philosophies were passed down by word of mouth for 1000 years before being written down.
What were the Vedas?
In the Indus Valley, this seasonal monsoon helped bring rain from the sea to the land.
What is summer monsoon?
The mountain range forming a wall between China and India.
What is the Himalayas?
A child's devotion to their parents.
What is filial piety?
What was the name of the Qin Dynasty Emperor? (English)
What is First Emperor?
A region with its own government.
What is access to food, water, travel, and supplies needed to survive?
Reasoning for why ancient civilizations would build walls around their provinces/cities.
What is protection from invaders and protection from flooding?
The type of government that needs a strong leader and a strong legal system in order to create social order.
What is legalism?
The five relationships that makeup the foundation of Confucianism?
What is the relationships between ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, older and younger brothers, and two friends?
Characteristics of a long lasting dynasty.