Early Society in Mainland East Asia Ch. 5

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Approximately 3,000 miles long, rises in the mountains that border the plateau of Tibet, and is given the nickname "China's Sorrow"

• Indus River

• Yangze River

• Tigris River

• Yellow River

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Known for their effective flood control projects

• Zhou dynasty

• Xia dynasty

• Shang dynasty

• Qin dynasty

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1766 to 1122 B.C.E. and managed to monopolize the production of bronze in the Yellow River valley by controlling access to copper and tin ores​

• Zhou dynasty

• Xia dynasty

• Han dynasty

• Shang dynasty

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One of sixty-four consorts of the Shang king Wu Ding who ruled in the thirteenth century B.C.E.

• Fu Hao

• King Wu Ding

• Erlitou

• Ao

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Relied on a decentralized administration because a single court could not rule the entire land effectively

• Han

• Zhou

• Shang

• Qin

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What happened to bronze weapons when the technology of iron metallurgy emerged?

• Bronze and Iron were the same price

• Iron became obsolete

• Iron made bronze weapons obsolete

• Iron disappeared

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What is the period of the warring states?

• Royal court regains authority and expanded their empire

• The Royal Court and territorial princes worked with one another to expand the empire

• The territorial princes fought with the royal court over expansion

• The territorial princes ignored the central government and used their own resources to grow and expand  their states as a new political order

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Relied on a decentralized administration because a single court could not rule the entire land effectively

• Shang

• Qin

• Xia

• Zhou

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A manual instructing diviners in the art of foretelling the future

• Book of History

• Book of Changes

• Book of Songs

• Book of Odes

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A collection of verses on the themes both light and serious. Poems, hymns, verses about life, love, family, friendship, eating, drinking, work, play, nature, and daily life

• Book of Change

• Book of Songs

• Book of History

• Book of Etiquette

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After the Shang dynasty, not even queens and empresses merit temples dedicated exclusively to their memories.

• True

• False

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Collection of documents that justified the Zhou state and called for subjects to obey their overloards

• Book of History

• Book of Changes

• Book of Hostility

• Book of Power

​Describe the process that was used with Oracle Bones.

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Zhou aristocrats learned the art of polite behavior and the proper was to conduct rituals with this

• Book of History

• Book of Changes

• Book of Poetry

• Book of Etiquette

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What was the patriarchal society like in Neolithic times?

• Men wielded public authority and won the rights to it by the virtue of his male line

• Women wielded public authority but won the rights to it by the virtue of the male line

• Women were not honored family members

• Men wielded public authority but won the rights to it by the virtue of the female line

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Organized religion played an important role in Chinese Culture

• True

• false