Pearson: Topic 5: Ancient China

Today, China is similar in size to ---.

• Australia

• Canada

• the United States

• Scandinavia

China's two main rivers are

• Yin

• Huang

• Chang

• Yang

Another name for the Chang river is ---.

• Yellow

• Yangtze

• Chang

• Indus

a fine dustlike material that forms fertile soil

• vernacular

• potlach

• loess

• laquer

Shang Dynasty

• organized farmers

• built dikes

• used oracle bones

• enacted the Mandate of Heaven

• began civil service

pictures that represent words or ideas

• logographs

• pictographs

• hieroglyphs

• alphabets

bronze metalworking

• Shang Dynasty

• Zhou Dyansty

• Han Dynasty

• Qin Dynasty

The Shang Dynasty lasted over --- years.

• 200

• 400

• 600

• 800

the devotion of children to their parents

• Confucianism

• filial piety

• mandate of heaven

• civil service

"the first teacher"

• Laozi

• Shi Huangdi

• Confucius

• Wudi