Geography
Advantages and Disadvantages
Geography Part Deux
The Yellow (Not Snow) River
Shang Dynasty
Zhou Dynasty
Potpourri
100

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?

100

China's diverse geography protects it from this.

What are invading forces?

100

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?

100

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?

100

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?

100

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?

100

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?

200

These are located in southern China and provide lots of rain and diverse topography.

What are rainforests?

200

China did not benefit from this because of a lack of trade and interaction with other people.

What is cultural diffusion?

200

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?

200

Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek ordered the levees blown to stop the invasion of this country.

What is Japan?

200

This is the earliest form of writing in China.

What are oracle bones?

200

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?

200

This philosophy held that humans were inherently bad and needed to be kept in line by a strong state. 

What is legalism?

300

This boasts the 10 highest peaks in the world, including Mt. Everest (highest).

What are the Himalayan Mountains?

300

China's technological advances were the first products shared via this.

What is the Silk Road?

300

Only permanent communities in this area were on the oases. Residents built homes out of mud.

What are the Northwestern Deserts?

300

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?

300

The Shang Dynasty mastered this metal which gave them an advantage in battles.

What is bronze?

300

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?

300

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?

400

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?

400

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?

400

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?

400

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?


400

The Shang Dynasty overthrew this dynasty to take control of China.

What is the Xia Dynasty?

400

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?

400

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?

500

This was an important source of water for China, and its valleys supported the Silk Road trade.

What is Tian Shan?

500

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?


500

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?

500

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?

500

Name two accomplishments of the Shang Dynasty.

What are musical instruments, the lunar calendar, odd and even numbers, some accounting, and astronomical observations?

500

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?

500

This group ended the Zhou Dynasty during the Warring States period.

What is the Qin Dynasty?