Ancient China Vocabulary

What is another name for the Huang He River?

• Red River

• Yellow River

• Green River

Where does the Yangtze River flow into?

• Red Sea

• Yellow Sea

• North Sea

A line of rulers that belong to the same family

• government

• generations

• dynasty

China's first capital

• Beijing

• Tokyo

• Anyang

Who were the aristocrats?

• Lower class

• Middle Class

• Upper class

Where did the aristocrats wealth come from?

• gold they owned

• land they owned

• animals they sold

Characters that stand for objects are

• pictographs

• selfies

• pie graphs

What are two Chinese pictographs that are put together to make one idea?

• anime

• comics

• ideographs

What is a bureaucracy?

• appointed officials who are responsible for different areas of government

• appointed officials who work in schools

• a group of people who make laws for the government

What is a social class?

• The period that Mrs. Clemons and Mr. Mansfield teach you history

• People who share a similar position in society

• People who have a different position in society