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Steppe
A dry grass covered plain
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A dry grass covered plain
Steppe
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Loess
A fine yellow dust that covers a plain
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A fine yellow dust that covers a plain
Loess
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Oracle Bones
Animal bones carved with written characters used to tell the future
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Animal bones carved with written characters used to tell the future
Oracle Bones
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Ideographs
Symbols for words
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Symbols for words
Ideographs
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Tributary
A river or stream that flows into a larger river
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A river or stream that flows into a larger river
Tributary
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Warlords
Military rulers of smaller states
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Military rulers of smaller states
Warlords
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Dikes
Walls to hold back water
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Walls to hold back water
Dikes
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Describe China’s key geographical features:
China is an enormous land with rugged mountains, vast deserts, and dense forests.
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Describe China’s key geographical features:
China is an enormous land with rugged mountains, vast deserts, and dense forests.
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What is another name for the Huang He River?
China’s Sorrow and The Yellow River.
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China’s Sorrow and The Yellow River.
Another name of the Huang He River
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What limited travel in early China?
Rugged mountains, vast deserts, and dense forests made travel difficult in early China
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Who was China’s first king?
Yu the Great
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Yu the Great
China's first king
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Describe the arts of the shang dynasty?
The Shang were skilled artists and craftworkers and their greatest art was bronze metalworking. Many bronze objects were found in the tombs of Shang rulers
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What made the Zhou Dynasty difficult to govern?
It was large and difficult for a single ruler to govern. The king placed family members in charge of individual regions or states. Over time the loyalty these family members had to the king broke down.
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What was the Mandate of Heaven?
The belief that heaven was a supreme force of nature that gave dynasties the right to rule.
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Under the Mandate of Heaven, how could a dynasty lose its right to rule?
If a dynasty failed to act properly it lost the right to rule. This mandate would then fall to a new dynasty that had earned the right to rule.
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Explain Chinese society. What was a noble? What was a peasant?
The nobles were at the top. They owned land and lived in comfortable houses. They were expected to serve the kings and raise armies to support him. Peasants were at the bottom. They owned little and lived in pit houses dug into the ground. They had duties such as farming and serving as soldiers in battle.
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Describe the Era of the warring states.
From 481 b.c. to 221 b.c. China was in full-scale warfare. During this time stronger states conquered weaker ones. The fighting during the warring states period was brutal and destructive and millions of people died.
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Which weapons helped warfare to grow?
Crossbows (which shot arrows with great power over long distances) and cavalry (soldiers on horseback) helped warfare grow.
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Why did the Zhou Dynasty fail in its attempts to govern China?
China was a large area that a single king had difficulty governing. He depended on loyal nobles to rule various regions. As these nobles rebelled and sought power for themselves, war would break out.
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