Physical Geography
Inner vs. Outer China
On the Map
Shang Dynasty
Communication and Society
100
This river was called “China’s Sorrow” because of its dangerous floods.
What is the Huang He (Yellow River)?
100
This region of China had better farmland and more settlements.
What is Inner China?
100
What is #6
North China Plain
100
Shang armies were especially powerful because they used these advanced weapons.
What are bronze weapons?
100
This Shang invention helped people communicate over long distances and across time.
What is writing?
200
This harsh desert in northern China helped protect Inner China from invaders.
What is the Gobi Desert?
200
This region included deserts, plateaus, and mountains with fewer people.
What is Outer China?
200
What is #3
The Himalayan Mountains
200
The capital city whose ruins included oracle bones and royal tombs.
What is Anyang?
200
The modern Chinese word for merchant is “shang ren,” suggesting this about the dynasty.
What is that the Shang were known for trade and merchants?
300
Ancient Chinese farmers mainly grew rice in this river basin.
What is the Chang Jiang (Yangtze) Basin?
300
These TWO geographic barriers protected Inner China from invaders.
What are mountains and deserts?
300
What is #4
The Gobi Desert
300
Archaeologists concluded the Shang practiced this ritual after finding human and animal bones at Anyang.
What are sacrifices?
300
Shang craftspeople and traders both contributed to society by creating and exchanging these goods.
What are crafts, tools, pottery, silk, or bronze items?
400
The high elevation of this landform created cold temperatures and difficult travel.
What is the Tibetan Plateau?
400
Chang Jiang(Yangtze) Basin and North China Plain.
What is Inner China?
400
What is #7?
The Chang Jiang( Yangtze) Basins
400
Shang kings and nobles weakened the economy by..?
What is spending too much on these luxurious items?
400
Give ONE way the Chang Jiang(Yangtze) or Huang He(Yellow) Rivers were important to ancient China.
What is farming, irrigation, transportation, or providing water?
500
Name ONE benefit early settlers received from either the Huang He or Chang Jiang Rivers.
What is fertile soil, fresh water, transportation, or irrigation?
500
What is one way of life we observed in the Tibetian Plateau?
What is nomadic herding?
500
What is #1?
What is the Taklimakan Desert
500
Shang Dynasty invented a writing system that consisted of?
What is Pictographs and Logographs?
500
What was a central part of religious belief during the Shang Dynasty? What is one piece of evidence that we have to prove this?
What is ancestor worship? What is Oracle Bones?