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Geography
China's government & rulers
China's beliefs
Achievements
This and That
100
The other name for the Huang River
What is the Yellow River?
100
A line of rulers who belong to the same family
What is a dynasty?
100
Chinese people during the Shang dynasty wrote on these to ask for the gods' advice and to predict the future.
What are oracle bones?
100
The Great Wall of China was built for this purpose.
What is to protect China from Northern invaders?
100
These people wrote The Analects
Who are Confucius's students?
200
The river was called this because it overflowed killing people and destroying homes
What is "China's Sorrow"?
200
This emperor had a tomb created for himself with over 8000 terra cotta soldiers.
Who is Qin Shi Huangdi?
200
The Chinese call this place "The Roof of the World."
What is the Tibetan Plateau?
200
Farmers cut these flat areas (similar to broad steps) into mountain slopes to increase farming area.
What are terraces?
200
This was the longest dynasty.
What is the Zhou dynasty?
300
These high mountains border China to the southwest.
What are the Himalayas?
300
This person was the ruler during the Han dynasty.
Who is Han Gaozu?
300
This road was used to transport goods far distances. There were middlemen along the route.
What is The Silk Road?
300
This was a time period where Chinese told stories about "superheroes". It bridged a time between prehistory and recorded history.
What is the Xia Period?
300
This is the current capital of China.
What is Beijing?
400
Loess is carried by the wind from this large desert.
What is the Gobi?
400
A heavenly order that is part of Confucianism. It gives the ruler the right to rule.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
400
This is what makes Chinese history special, or different, than other cultures we have studied.
What is that they have a continuous, or unbroken, history?
400
These things made Eastern Zhou different than Western Zhou.
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400
This is what Chinese people built along the Huang River to contain the water during flooding.
What are levees?
500
This is a method that Chinese people use to farm. (HINT- They have to adjust to the land there!)
Terrace Farming
500
These are the two other names for Confucius.
Who was Master Kung and Kung Fuzi?
500
Women were responsible for this task during Western Zhou.
What is silk making?
500
This is the idea that people must be qualified for government jobs.
What is civil service?
500
These were the 4 dynasties spoken about in class (IN ORDER!)
What were Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han?