Ancient China Geography

What major crop was grown in the south along the banks of the Yangtze River? 

• Corn
• Millet
• Wheat 
• Rice

What geographical feature is sometimes called the "Cradle of Chinese Civilization"?

• Himalayan Mountains

• Yellow River

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 isolated the Chinese civilization allowing it to develop independently.

• They helped China to establish trade with other civilizations.

This is a long river in China, also known as the Yangtze River

• Huang He

• Chang Jiang

• Dao

• Zhou

This is a river in china, also known as the Yellow River; flows from Mongolia to the Pacific Ocean

• Dao

• Zhou

• Shang

• Huang He

What were the two major rivers of Ancient China? 

• Nile and Amazon
• Yangtze and Yellow
• Mississippi and Ganges
• Tigris and Euphrates

True or False: Geography played an important role in the development of the civilization of Ancient China.

• True
• False

Line of rulers from the same family is a 

• cultural diffusion
• dyansty

Civilization in Ancient China settled and started cultivating rice along what river?

• Indus River

• Tigris River

• Nile River

• Huang He / Yellow River

Near what geographical feature have civilizations started?

• desert
• oceans
• rivers
• glaciers