Colorful River
Geography
Dynasty, Please
Culture
Chop Suey
100
When the river in ancient China flooded, it spread rich silt across the land, making the soil excellent for growing crops such as _______ and_______. Hint: These are two staple grains.
What are millet and wheat?
100
What country was the Yellow River/Huang He located in?
China
100
What is a dynasty?
A line of hereditary rulers of a country.
100
_______ _______ were pieces of animal bones or turtle shells used by the Shang Dynasty to communicate with ancestors and gods.
What are oracle bones?
100
This traditional Chinese medical practice involves inserting thin needles into specific points on the body to treat various conditions, including chronic pain, nausea, and headaches.
What is acupuncture?
200
One of the earliest Chinese civilizations arose along the _______ (also called Huang He) River, whose fertile silt made farming possible.
What is Yellow?
200
China was often isolated by natural barriers like the ________ Desert to the north.
What is Gobi?
200
The first known dynasty was the _______ Dynasty.
Shang
200
How would diviners read oracle bones? After applying heated pressure, what did they look for?
They would decipher the cracks.
200
This Chinese philosopher is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages.
Who is Confucius?
300
The Huang He river is known as the “________ of Chinese Civilization.” Hint: This was considered the birth of Chinese civilization.
What is the Cradle?
300
What mountain range was to the west of the civilization of ancient China?
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
300
What dynasty unified China for the first time in 500 years, after The Warring States period was an era of intense conflict in ancient China, from approximately 475 to 221 BCE ? Hint: Origin of China's name.
What is The Qin Dynasty?
300
Oracle bones are important because they show one of the earliest forms of Chinese ________.
What is writing?
300
This ancient Chinese religion teaches people that they may overcome suffering and achieve nirvana (enlightenment) through following the Noble Path.
What is Buddhism?
400
The Yellow River looks yellow because it carries a fine yellow-brown soil called....
What is loess?
400
This was a vast network of ancient trade routes connecting the East and West across Eurasia.
What is the Silk Road?
400
The Z_________ Dynasty developed the idea of the Mandate of __________.
Zhou, Heaven
400
The king or a priest would carve _________ about important events, such as farming, war, or weather, onto the bones.
What are questions?
400
Silk became so valuable that the Chinese kept the process of silk-making a _______.
What is a secret?
500
The Huang He was sometimes called “China’s ________” because its floods could be sudden and destructive, often destroying villages and crops.
What is sorrow?
500
Where did the loess come from that gave the Yellow River its color?
What is the Loess Plateau?
500
Which dynasty invented oracle bone script?
What is the Shang?
500
Confucianism promotes social order through a rigid, hierarchical system of relationships centered on the "Five Bonds." Which was said to be most crucial?
What is father-son?
500
What is the Mandate of Heaven? What did the ruler's power depend on according to this concept?
The Mandate of Heaven was an ancient Chinese philosophical concept that justified the rule of a monarch, stating that a ruler was granted the right to govern by the divine power of Heaven but only as long as they ruled justly and with virtue