Early Chinese History

What geographical feature is sometimes called the cradle of Chinese civilization?

• Himalayan Moutains
• Pacific Ocean
• Yellow River
• Gob Desert

Ancient China was surrounded by desert, mountains, and ocean. What impact did these natural borders have on the culture?

• They helped to integrate the cultures of other world civilizations
• They cause China to constantly be at war with other world civilizations
• They isolated the Chinese civilization allowing it to develop independently
• They helped China to establish trade with other civilizations

What is the pattern of the rise and fall of dynasties?

• political philosophies

• dynastic cycle

• Mandate of Heaven

• Time of Warring States

What is the Mandate of Heaven?

• An ancient Chinese belief that a ruler had the gods' approval

• the kingdom during the Zhou Dynasty

• the Daoist path to eternal life

• a belief that heaven provided food for those that were hungry

Which succession order of dynasties is in correct order?

• Shang, Han, Qin, Zhou

• Shang, Qin, Zhou, Han

• Qin, Zhou, Han, Shang

• Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han

In China, emperors who took power were believed to get the ____ of heaven.

• rule
• mandate
• song
• word

If a Chinese emperor lost his dao and the mandate of heaven, he would become a poor ruler and eventually a new ruler would express the dao, gain the mandate and become emperor.  This represents

• the imperial cycle.
• the royal cycle.
• the spin cycle.
• the dynastic cycle.

A symbol in a writing system based on pictures

• Cuneiform

• pictograph

• filial piety

• Sanskrit

Having title or possession by reason of birth...

• hereditary

• natural right

• Mandate of Heaven

• filial piety

The belief that the Chinese king’s right to rule came from the gods...

• filial piety

• Approval of Gods

• Daoism

• Mandate of Heaven