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WorksheetsAncient China -section 1 China's First Civilizations
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 21mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
How did the mountains, rivers, and deserts help shape China's civilization?
a)
they allowed the Chinese to farm the land and harvest food
b)
they were important to the spirits and ancestors of the Chinese people
c)
they were like a wall that protected the people and separated them from others
d)
they were helpful to the Shang Dynasty and helped shape history
2.
What are the names of the two rivers that were most helpful to the ancient Chinese who settled nearby?
a)
Huang He and Chang Jiang
b)
Chang Jiang and Nile
c)
Nile and Chang Lee
d)
Nile and Merrimack
3.
What was another name for the Huang He?
a)
Yangtze River
b)
China's Sorrow
c)
Chang Jiang
d)
Nile
4.
What is a third name for the Huang He?
a)
Nile
b)
Yellow River
c)
Chang Jiang
d)
Yangtze River
5.
What is another name for the Chang Jiang?
a)
China's Sorrow
b)
The Yellow River
c)
Huang He
d)
Yangtze River
6.
What was the first dynasty of China?
a)
Shang
b)
Anyang
c)
Xia
d)
Zhou
7.
What dynasty built the first Chinese cities?
a)
Zhou
b)
Xia
c)
Shang
d)
Anyang
8.
What are some of the characteristics of the Shang dynasty?
a)
they had huge walls, royal palaces, ruling class used warlords to govern territories, worships spirits and ansestors
b)
they farmed the land, had a loosly organized government, people lived in fear of drowing in the rivers
c)
They had a greatly wealthy society where everyone had plenty of food, nice homes and many lived near the mountians
d)
they had plenty of martial arts classes for everyone, people were traders or artisans
9.
What was the name of the first capital city in ancient China?
a)
Xia
b)
Shang
c)
Chang Jiang
d)
Anyang
10.
Who are aristocrats?
a)
people who fought for their kings
b)
people who grew grains and worked the land
c)
people who were nobels and owned land
d)
people who honored their ansestors
11.
What was life like during the Shang Dynasty?
a)
people lived in fear, had superstitions, and they didn't value art
b)
people worshiped spirits and ancestors, they told the future with oracle bones and they had bronze art
c)
people were not superstitious, they did not worship spirits and ancestors
d)
all of these are true
12.
What is a pictograph?
a)
a character that joins two or more pictures to represent an idea
b)
modern Chinese language that uses pictures to represent ideas
c)
a character that stands for an object
d)
the Chinese alphabet
13.
What is an ideograph?
a)
a character that stands for an object
b)
the Chinese alphabet
c)
a character that joins two or more pictographs to form an idea
d)
all of the above
14.
What was the mandate of heaven?
a)
the Zhou belief that a king was chosen by heaven
b)
the "way"
c)
an important trade item for the Zhou Dynasty
d)
a new tool for trading during the Zhou Dynasty
15.
What is a mandate?
a)
an empire
b)
a kind of crossbow
c)
a formal order
d)
the "way"
16.
What was an important trade item during the Zhou Empire?
a)
crossbows
b)
silk
c)
sundials
d)
bronze art
17.
Who ruled after the Shang?
a)
the Xia
b)
Shay
c)
the Zhou
d)
the Dao
18.
Which Chinese dynasty lasted longer than any other?
a)
the Xia
b)
the Shang
c)
the Shay
d)
the Zhou
19.
Who was the leader of the Zhou Dynasty?
a)
Lui Bang
b)
Qin
c)
Wu Wang
d)
Dao
20.
What are some of the characteristics of the Zhou Dynasty?
a)
trade and farming methods improved
b)
the mandate from heaven ended
c)
cotton was a big trade item
d)
Anyang was the capital city
21.
Why did the Zhou Empire fall?
a)
in 403 BC Zhou territories became powerful and began fighting
b)
the Chaldean warriors learned about iron from the Hittites
c)
Zhou leaders decided to give up and start a community farm
d)
all of these are correct
22.
What do historians call the years after the fall of the Zhou?
a)
"The Period of Fighting Provinces"
b)
"The Years of the Batteling States"
c)
"The Period of the Warring States"
d)
"The Years of Community Farming"
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