6th Grade Ancient China

On which continent is China located?

• Australia

• India

• Asia

• Antarctica

Which number represents where China is located?

• 4

• 2

• 1

China's civilization developed between which two rivers?

• Yin and Yang

• Mississippi and Ohio

• North and South

• Huang He (Yellow River) and Yangtze (Long River)

Also known as the Yellow River, it stretches for nearly 3,000 miles across northern China. The river often floods, and the floods leave behind layers of silt (loess) on the surrounding countryside. Because these floods can be very destructive, the river is sometimes called China’s Sorrow.

• Chang Jiang

• Huang He

• Wong River

• Cuòwù de River

What was the natural border of China that was a desert?

• Sahara
• Gobi
• Death Valley
• Antarctica

The ___________ contain some of the tallest mountains in the world

• Alps

• Rockies

• Himalayas

• Andes

The Chinese in the Shang Dynasy were hesitant to leave the Yellow River Valley. Which reason for staying is NOT true?

• This was the site of the first Chinese civilization.

• The land was fertile & was good land to farm.

• The Himalyan Mountains and Gobi Desert wasn't able to be farmed.

• They couldn't pass the Great Wall of China.

Ancient China was ruled by ____________.

• Asia

• Pharaohs

• Great Wall

• Emperors

What is a dynasty?

• A series of rulers from the same family

• A series of rulers from the same continent

• A series of rulers from the same country

• A series of rulers

What was the Mandate of Heaven?

• largest ancient palace in the world

• states you will live forever in the afterlife

• law from heaven that said a dynasty has the right to rule

• archaeologists discovered an underground army