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100
What are pictures that represent words or ideas?
What is a pictograph
100
What are walls that hold back water?
What are dikes
100
What are the teachings of the thinker Confucius?
What is Confucianism
100
Which metal was most valued by the ancient Chinese?
What is Bronze
100
How were oracle bones used?
What is to predict the future
200
What is total disorder and and confusion?
What is chaos
200
What are the earliest written records from China?
What are oracle bones
200
What is an ancient Chinese way of life that emphasizes a simple and natural existence?
What is Daoism
200
Who was the Son of heaven?
Who is the ruler of China
200
According to Daoism, what must be balanced
What is yin and yang
300
What are a set of beliefs about the world and how to live?
What is a philosophy
300
What are military leaders of small states?
What are warlords
300
What does it mean to be able to last, not likely to fall apart?
What is stable
300
Which spirits were most importan to the Chinese?
What are ancestor spirits
300
Which dynasty had the earliest written records?
What is the Shang Dyansty
400
The era from about 475 B.C. to 221 B.C. This period was known for having destructive conflict and being brutal.
What is the Warring States period
400
Heaven was the highest force of nature that gave dynasties the right to rule was called what?
What is Mandate of Heaven
400
Practices of honoring the spirits of the dead are known as?
What is ancestral worship
400
Where did China's first civilazation develop?
What is on the North China Plain
400
How did the Zhou king control his vast kingdom?
What is he placed family members in charge of regions
500
What is a fine dustlike material that can form soil?
What is a loess
500
What is the devotion of children to their parents?
What is filial piety
500
Students of Confucius collected his teachings in these
What are Analects
500
How did the Zhous dynasty gain the Mandate of Heaven?
What is the Zhou were victorious over the Shang Dynasty
500
Name 4 advances of the occured during the Zhou Dynasty
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