Mountain Ranges
What is The name of the mountain range that is located along the border of Southern China?
The Himalaya Mountains.
Why is the Yellow River yellow?
It is because when it comes down the stream, it collects silt (loess).
What is the name of the first dynasty created in Ancient China?
It is called the Shang Dynasty. The Xia dynasty is nice, but probably not real.
Why is the Gobi Desert considered a dangerous/risky desert?
The Gobi Desert is dangerous and dry. The water sources are very scarce and hard to find.
The longest and important structure that was built during the Qin Dynasty was called?
The Great Wall of China.
Which Himalayan Mountain is known by most of the world?
Mt. Everest
What did the Yellow River force the civilizations that lived near it to learn?
The Yellow River taught the early Chinese people the techniques in flood control.
What place/region did the Shang Dynasty rule?
They ruled in the Yellow River Valley.
"What is the nickname of the Taklamakan Desert?
"Sea of Death"
What was the main purpose of constructing the Great Wall of China?
They were built to protect the people and territories from a continued threat of invasion by the northern nomadic tribes.
What is the most important advantage of the Himalaya Mountains?
The Himalaya Mountains helped to protect the early people who settled in the interior of China, and protected them from outsiders.
What is one advantage of the Yangtze River?
The Yangtze River had high banks which kept the homes built on high ground safe.
The use of what was introduced during the Zhou Dynasty?
Iron.
Why is the Taklamakan Desert also considered a dangerous/risky desert?
Sand storms occur randomly and is very strong. The days are boiling hot. The nights are freezing cold. The snake are poisonous. There is little hope of water.
What is the structure called that is a very important aspect of Chinese culture and architecture?
Mausoleums.
Where you bury the rich dead.
The mountains of South and West China have what affect on the East?
They create a rain shadow effect that prevents water from arriving in the East.
What made the Huang He River useful to the early Chinese civilizations?
It developed the first civilizations of Ancient China, provided fertile water source to grow fresh crops.
What kind of systems did the Qin Dynasty create?
The Spy System and the Bureaucracy System.
Basically detailed government structure like today.
What are some "pros" about the Gobi Desert?
The Gobi doesn't let invaders in.
Plus they found dinosaur eggs their for the first time. Neat!
What was the largest palatial architecture that was built in Ancient China?
The Imperial Palace in Beijing, also known as the "Forbidden City".
The mountain rain shadows created which effect?
The creation of the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts.
What River is considered to be the birthplace of Chinese Civilizations?
The Huang He
The Qin Dynasty built one of the most important structures of Ancient China. What is the structure called?
The Great Wall of China.
What caused the Gobi Desert?
The Gobi Desert is caused by droughts, climate change and other environmental causes like rain shadows.
What is even longer than the Great Wall, is man made in China, and gets much less attention
The Grand Canal