Ancient China (6th Grade Fisher)

a symbol in a writing system that represents a thing or an idea

• Pictograph

• Ideograph

• Hieroglyph

• Cuneiform

a desert located in northern China and southeast Mongolia.

• Taklimakan

• Syrian

• Gobi

• Sahara

River Valley Civilizations

• all had natural barriers

• all had unpredictable floods

• all had a type of religion

• all had a type of writing

A philosophy that spread via the silk road from India

• Taoism

• Buddhism

• Daoism

• Confucianism

The Chinese settled near rivers MOSTLY for...

• farming

• transportation

• fishing

• protection

A Chinese philosophy that says that the natural order is more important than the social order.

• Buddhism

• Confucianism

• Legalism

• Daoism

Ancient capital of China

• Chang'an

• Antioch

• Dunhuang

• Beijing

the belief that the Chinese king's right to rule came from the gods

• Buddhism

• Daoism

• Confucianism

• Mandate of Heaven

A socially isolated River Valley Civilization surrounded by mountain, deserts and oceans as natural barriers

• Mesopotamia

• Egypt

• China

• India

a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes living in harmony with nature.

• Daoism

• Buddhism

• Legalism

• Confucianism