China's Geography
mountainous borders of China
What are the Tien Shan and the Himalayan Mountains?
The top of the dynasty
What is an emperor?
Overthrew this dynasty
Who is the Shang Dynasty?
Silk is made from this creature
What is a silk worm?
Earth, darkness, female, cool
What is yin?
Desert border to the north
What is the Gobi Desert?
Ruled for approximately these many years
What are 600 years?
The divine (by the gods) right to rule
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Goods that are sent to another place and sold to other people
What is an export?
The supreme deity
Who is Shang Di?
Built to control floods on the Yellow River
What are dikes?
Praying to many gods
What is polytheism?
Innovations and advancement of the Zhou Dynasty
What are coins, books, roads, canals, and iron?
What is the cocoon?
Used to unite the Chinese people
What is writing?
What two rivers began ancient Chinese civilization?
What are the Yellow River (Huang He) and the Yangzi River (Chiang Jiang)?
Gods would only listen to the ancestors of the ______
Who is the king?
Created stronger weapons and tools using this metal
What is iron?
these persons could afford silk
Who are nobles and royalty?
carving questions into bone
What are oracle bones?
Yellow silt
What is loess found in the Yellow River?
What are the Yin and Yang?
Type of government
What is feudal state?
What is the Silk Road?
the part of society who were able to learn to read and write
Who are the wealthy?