China Part 1

Loess

• a fine, dustlike material that can form soil

• walls to hold back water

Dike

• animal bones or turtle shells carved with written character that the Shang kings used to try to tell the future

• walls to hold back water

Oracle bones

• animal bones or turtle shells carved with written character that the Shang kings used to try to tell the future

• pictures that represent words or ideas

Pictograph

• pictures that represent words or ideas

• a fine, dustlike material that can form soil

How did geographic features isolate ancient China from other early civilizations?

• They were able to easily trade and communicate with others by using the East China Sea.

• They were surrounded by two deserts the Talkimakan and the Gobi and the Himalayas that make a wall between China and India.

How did farming settlements along the Huang River become the beginning of Chinese civilization?

• Some of the villages had chiefs or rulers who would command warriors and they took over nearby villages and then became small kingdoms.

• People became very successful farmers who were able to trade with other places nearby.

What were the achievements of the Shang dynasty?

• They used bronze metal working, It was the earliest dynasty in which we have a record for.

• They were the first ones to contact other civilizations outside of China.

Mandate of Heaven

• Heaven was the highest force of nature that gave dynasties the right to rule

• military rulers of small states

Warlord

• total disorder and confusion:

• military rulers of small states

Warring States period

• Heaven was the highest force of nature that gave dynasties the right to rule

• The era from 475 BC to 221 BC was know as this brutal and destructive period