Ancient China

Why is the Huang He (Yellow River) also known as "China's Sorrow"?

• It never floods
• It floods unpredictably 
• It floods on a schedule
• It has dried up over time

Which of the following is NOT  an achievement under the Ancient Chinese?

• cities built on grids
• paper
• silk
• wind mills

What is the purpose of the structure pictured here?

• It is a temple
• To protect China's northern border
• To protect China's Southern border
• To protect China from India 

____ is fine, windblown yellow soil

• Loess
• Clan
• Oracle Bone
• Yangzi

What religion was spread to China on the Silk Road?

• Christianity
• Buddhism
• Islam
• Hinduism

How did the Silk Road effect China?

• China became wealthy
• China ended farmed
• China started a war
• China stopped trading

Trade route that stretched from western China to southern Asia

• filial piety
• Silk Road
• Great Wall
• Anyang

Line of rulers from the same family

• Legalism
• long Chinese line
• filial piety
• dynasty

Shang weapons were especially strong because skilled artisans made these objects from

• iron 
• stone
• bones
• bronze

A symbol in a writing system based on pictures

• ideograph
• pictograph
• bureaucracy
• currency