China Lesson 1

Mountains and deserts affected China’s civilization because they...

• were gifts from the gods

• served as trade routes

• acted as barriers

How did rivers help civilization develop in China?

• rich soil;

  trade and transportation

• served as a place for bridges

• they were shrines for the gods

Historians believe this to be the first Chinese Dynasty.

• Shang

• Zhou

A warlord is...

• a priest

• an artisan

• a leader who has his own army

• a merchant

Which group of people made up the most of Chinese society?

• enslaved people

• farmers

• kings

• aristocrats

What is the difference between a pictograph and an ideograph?

• pictographs show objects; ideographs show ideas

• pictographs show ideas; ideographs show objects

Shang kings had questions scratched on this to answer difficult questions...

• shells

• stone pillar

• papyrus paper

• oracle bones

Having title or possession by reason of birth is called...

• hereditary

• dao

• mandate

What technology was developed in China during the Zhou dynasty?

• wheeled carts

• iron weapons

• better irrigation systems

• faster boats with silk sails

The time when aristocrats began to take on their own territory at the end of the Zhou Dynasty was the...

• Qin Dynasty

• Han Dynasty

• period of the warring states