Ancient China Vocabulary

longest river in Asia, empties into the Yellow Sea

• Nile River

• Yangtze River

• Yellow River

• Ganges River

A desert that lies in both China and Mongolia

• Sahara Desert

• Gobi Desert

• Taklimakan Desert

• Mohave Desert

a platform of Earth; lies in a stair pattern

• plateau

• hills

• terrace

• foothills

the region where human settlement and culture began in China

• China Plain

• South China Plain

• North China Plain

• Asian Plain

Why did Emperor Qin have the Terracotta Army created?

• He wanted the largest army

• to protect him in the afterlife

• He was an artist

• to keep him alive for eternity

True or False: Geography played an important role in the development of the civilization of Ancient China.

• True
• False

loess

• the lowest class social pyramid

• an irrigation system

• brown soil in the river bed

• a yellowish brown soil that blows in from the desert

What was spread from India to China because of trade?

• smallpox

• Buddhism

• ways of thinking

• disease

North China Plain

• where they built the Great Wall of China

• the region where human settlement and culture began in China

• an area of plateaus

a yellowish brown soil that blows in from the desert

• mud

• clay

• silt

• loess