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Shang Dynasty
Zhou Dynasty
100
Look on pages 225-226
Look on pages 225-226
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The Huang He and the Chang Jiang
What were the important rivers in Ancient China?
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They might have built the first Chinese cities.
What are the Shang famous for building?
100
Overthrew the Shang rulers
How did the Zhou become rulers of China?
200
Look on pages 226-229
Look on pages 226-229
200
The Himilayas
What range of mountains protected China from outsiders?
200
Warlords and aristocrats
Who made up the upper class during the Shang dynasty?
200
Appointed officials responsible for different areas of government
What is a bureaucracy?
300
Look on pages 229-231
Look on pages 229-231
300
Peoples drowned, homes were destroyed, and good soil came.
What were the causes of floods from rivers?
300
Mostly bronze, but also pottery and silk.
What were Shang artisans best known for?
300
The proper way to rule
What is the meaning of Dao?
400
People could only farm one tenth of the land.
What was the effect of the mountains and deserts?
400
The kings used oracle bones with questions scratched onto them.
Who communicated with the gods, and what did they use to do it?
400
They were called by the gods, under a heavenly law call the Mandate of Heaven
How were kings appointed?