Vocabulary
This philosophy was based on respect and guided China for most of its history.
What is Confucianism?
This type of landform covers about 1/3 of China, making travel difficult.
What are mountains?
This river is also called the Yellow River.
What is the Huang He?
The Xia Dynasty is known as the ____ dynasty in traditional Chinese legends.
What is the first dynasty?
The Shang Dynasty is the first Chinese dynasty supported by this type of evidence.
What is written evidence?
A series, or line, of leaders from the same family
What is a dynasty?
This mountain range includes Mount Everest and helped block travel into China.
What is the Himalayan Mountain Range (or the Himalayas)?
This river is known as “China’s Sorrow” because of flooding.
What is the Huang He (Yellow River)?
This legendary ruler founded the Xia Dynasty.
Who was Yu the Great?
This is where the Shang Dynasty was located.
What is the Huang He (Yellow) River Valley?
A philosophy once used to guide China that teaches that people are evil and must be tightly controlled
What is Legalism?
This desert is in northwestern China and has hot summers and freezing winters.
What is the Gobi Desert?
This yellow silt would be left behind by floodwaters and made land very fertile.
What is loess?
Yu the Great is said to have helped stop flooding by building these.
What are canals, dams, and levees?
Written records from the Shang Dynasty were found on these objects.
What are oracle bones?
The belief that the heavens choose China's ruler; rulers could lose this if China faced natural disasters, invasions, etc.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Known as the “Sea of Death,” this is China’s largest desert.
What is the Taklimakan Desert?
This river is the longest in Asia and means “Long River.”
What is the Yangtze (Chang Jiang)?
Historians debate the Xia Dynasty because it has no ____.
What are written records?
Shang priests heated bones and read these to answer the king’s questions.
What are cracks?
A large group of lands ruled by one government, typically formed by force
What is an empire?
China’s deserts and mountains helped keep China cut off from other civilizations. This is called ____.
What is isolation?
The Ancient Chinese used the Yangtze River to help plant and grow ____________________.
What is rice?
This dynasty conquered the Xia Dynasty.
What is the Shang Dynasty?
The Shang Dynasty ended when nobles led by this group revolted.
Who were the Zhou?