This is one of the driest deserts in the world. It is a cold desert marked by long, cold winters.
What is the Gobi Desert?
China's diverse geography protects it from this.
What are invading forces?
This area was not suitable for growing crops, creating a nomadic lifestyle while herders raised livestock, especially yaks. Yaks supplied the people of this region with a variety of things.
What is the Tibetan Plateau?
The Yellow River has transformed itself more than ____ times in recorded history into a raging torrent that has swept away entire villages.
A. 1,000
B. 1,500
C. 2,000
D. 1,750
What is B?
This is a succession of people from the same family who play a prominent role in business, politics, or another field.
What is a dynasty?
This states that there could be only one legitimate ruler of China at a time and that this ruler had the blessing of the gods.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
He stressed tradition and believed that an individual should strive to be virtuous and respectful and to fit into his or her place in society.
Who is Confucius?
These are located in southern China and provide lots of rain and diverse topography.
What are rainforests?
China did not benefit from this because of a lack of trade and interaction with other people.
What is cultural diffusion?
Rice thrived in this warm, wet area. As early as 10,000 B.C., settlers were able to grow rice in the river valley.
What are the Chang Jiang Basins?
Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek ordered the levees blown to stop the invasion of this country.
What is Japan?
This is the earliest form of writing in China.
What are oracle bones?
In this system, the Emperor owned all the land and others could work it in return for food given to the Emperor.
What is feudalism?
This philosophy held that humans were inherently bad and needed to be kept in line by a strong state.
What is legalism?
This boasts the 10 highest peaks in the world, including Mt. Everest (highest).
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
China's technological advances were the first products shared via this.
What is the Silk Road?
Only permanent communities in this area were on the oases. Residents built homes out of mud.
What are the Northwestern Deserts?
The Worst flood in human history. The flood covered 50,000 square miles. It inundated eleven large towns and hundreds of villages and nine hundred thousand people died, and two million were left homeless.
A. 1987
B. 1587
C. 1887
D. 1787
What is C?
The Shang Dynasty mastered this metal which gave them an advantage in battles.
What is bronze?
The Zhou Dynasty overthrew the Shang Dynasty at this battle which saw numerous slaves and soldiers shift allegiances to the Zhou.
What is the Battle of Muye?
This Chinese philosophy advocated that the individual should follow a mysterious force, called The Way (dao), of the universe, and that all things were one.
What is Daoism?
This is referred to as the “Sea of Death." It has poisonous snakes, frequent sandstorms, hot days but freezing nights, and intense water shortages.
What is the Taklamakan Desert?
Name the three ways the numerous waterways in China helped the original inhabitants.
What are transportation inside China, water for animals and crops, and access to trade from other locations?
The fertile land in this area supported larger, more settled populations. Farmers grew mainly wheat and millet; raised cattle, sheep, oxen, pigs, and chickens; and herded cattle, water buffalo, and horses.
What is the North China Plain?
Give two ways the Yellow River helped the Ancient Chinese people.
What are provide a strong source of rich fertile soil and water for irrigation?
The Shang Dynasty overthrew this dynasty to take control of China.
What is the Xia Dynasty?
During this part of the Zhou Dynasty, the people moved away from the worship of Shangdi, the supreme god under the Shang, in favor of Tian (“heaven”). It legitimized rulers, through the Mandate of Heaven (divine right to rule) and moved to a feudal system.
What is Western Zhou?
This is a mechanized weapon, based on the bow and arrow, that fires bolts; it was invented during the Warring States period of the Zhou Dynasty when its low cost and ease of use made it a preferable weapon to the chariot.
What is a crossbow?
This was an important source of water for China, and its valleys supported the Silk Road trade.
What is Tian Shan?
Name at least three advancements made by the Chinese because of their isolation.
What are silk, paper, porcelain, the compass, gunpowder, the abacus, and the process of producing cast iron?
This area was too cold and dry for much farming, but prairie grass supported livestock. The early inhabitants of this region were nomads, who raised sheep, goats, cattle, and horses.
What is the Northern Plain?
Name two nicknames given to the Yellow River.
What are the River of Sorrows, the cradle of Chinese civilization, the Scourge of the Han People, and the Mother River?
Name two accomplishments of the Shang Dynasty.
What are musical instruments, the lunar calendar, odd and even numbers, some accounting, and astronomical observations?
During this part of the Zhou Dynasty, the king became less powerful as regional feudal lords took that power. Eventually, seven consolidated powerful feudal states were left.
What is Eastern Zhou?
This group ended the Zhou Dynasty during the Warring States period.
What is the Qin Dynasty?