indus and chinese civilization

Draw

Draw a circle around where you think Indian civilization began.

Multiple Choice

Which mountain range, the tallest in the world, provides geographic isolation to India's northern borders?

• Appalachians

• Himalayas

• Alps

• Sierra Nevada

Multiple Select

Choose the two rivers that civilization formed around in the Indian sub-continent:

• Indus

• Ganges

• Nile

• Tigris

Multiple Choice

Monsoon winds bring seasonal periods of

• heavy rain

• intense heat

• heavy snow

• violent storms

Open Ended

What is one evidence we have that the Indus River civilization should be considered a civilization?

Multiple Choice

China's culture has changed very little due to minimal outside influence, caused by

• Chinese hostility

• geographic isolation

• harsh climate

• its distance from Europe

Multiple Choice

The most important social unit in ancient Chinese culture

• Government

• City

• Family

• Class

Multiple Choice

Which Chinese export would prove to be the most valuable?

• Gold

• Jade

• Silk

• Ivory

The Land of China

● Powerful Rivers

○Huang He
■Filled with yellow soil called loess (similar in nature to silt)

■Often overflows causing large floods

■River nicknamed “China’s Sorrow” due to deaths from
floods

○Chang Jiang
■Third longest river in the world

○Yangtze

Shang Dynasty

●Built the first cities in China

●Capital of Anyang

●King was most powerful (political, miliary, and religious leader)

●Expanded territory from small portion in Northern china to all of the
Huang He valley

●Appointed warlords

○Military leaders who lead their own armies

○Shang kings relied on them to stay in power

Myths and Legends

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Created myths to explain creation

●

Yu the Great is most well known

○Dug the channels to control flooding of Huang He

○Chased away the dragon that created the floods

○Founded China’s first dynasty

■Known as the Xia dynasty

■No known evidence of this dynasty exists

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First dynasty is the Shang

○Ruled from 1750 BCE to 1045 BCE