River Dynasties in China

1. The type of soil that fills the Yellow River

• loess

• shilt

• shale

2. The Yellow River is the ____________ in Chinese.

• Yangtze

• Huang He

• Chang Jiang

The first Chinese Dynasty to leave written records.

• Shang

• Yu

• Xia

What was it called when the people believed that the emperor of China was given the right to rule by the gods?

The two major river systems in China that flow from the west to the Pacific Ocean.

• Huang He

• Chang Jiang

• Tigris

• Nile

China’s heartland, the center of its civilization

• North China Plain

• Middle Kingdom

• Taklimikan Desert

• Plateau of Tibet

Name used for the Homo erectus skeleton found in northern China near Beijing

• Peking man

• Huang He

• Lucy

• He Mang

The name the Chinese used to describe their own country as the center of the civilized world

• Middle Kingdom

• Middle World

• Mandate of Heaven

• Manifest Destiny

Which dynasty is considered to have been the first dynasty of Ancient China?

• Zhou

• Qin

• Shang

Why is it called the Yellow River?

• The great winds of the Gobi Desert blow the silt into the river turning it yellow

• All the vegetation around the river is the color yellow

• When the sun sets, it reflects off a yellowish color