River Valley Civilizations: China

China’s first civilization develop along the ____

• Huang He River
• Indus River
• Indian Ocean
• China Sea

What is loess?

• silt that settles on a hilltop
• a grass-covered plain
• a dry wind from the Gobi
• a fine, dustlike material

By the end of the Shang dynasty, the Chinese had developed a form of writing in which each character represented a __________

• sound
• letter
• syllable
• word or idea

How were oracle bones used?

• to predict the future
• to teach students how to write
• to record laws and official decrees
• to pass down dynastic history

Pictures representing words or ideas were use as the earliest form of which Building Block of Civilizations

• Belief system
• Bodies of Water
• Government
• Writing System

Zhou rulers claimed that they had won the Mandate of Heaven because they

• defeated the Old Kingdom
• brought the Warring States period to an end.
• were victorious over the Shang dynasty.
• were chosen as rulers by Shang priests.

“Son of Heaven” was a name given to

• First rulers in China
• the most powerful warlord.
• the father of a family.
• the ruler of China.
• an influential Zhou thinker.

During the Warring State Period these leaders were military rulers

• He killed all the nobles.
• He destroyed all traces of Shang culture.
• He shared power with warlords.
• Warlord

_____ made ancestor worship extremely important

• Filial Piety
• Confucianism
• the start of the dynastic cycle.
• the growth of new cities.

An ancient Chinese philosophy stating that a strong leader and a strong legal system, not moral values, are needed to create social order

• Daoism
• Confucianism
• Buddhism
• Legalism