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Question 1

Zhong Guo

Answer 1

Middle Kingdom

Question 2

How much is China covered by mountains?

Answer 2

1/3 (Kun Lun, Tian Shan)

Question 3

How much of China is desert

Answer 3

1/5 (Gobi)

Question 4

What are the three main rivers?

Answer 4

Huang He (Yellow river)-civilization centered here
Chang Jiang (Yangtze)
Did Jiang (West)

Question 5

Yellow River has rich deposits of…..

Answer 5

Loess (mineral rich soil)

Question 6

Pan Gu

Answer 6

giant who hatched from an egg-founder of China

Question 7

According to legend who started China’s 1st dynasty

Answer 7

Yu the Great and was named Xia

Question 8

The first official Chinese dynasty was to actually have written record was who?

Answer 8

Shang

Question 9

Who founded the first dynasty?

Answer 9

Cheng Tang

Question 10

What does Wang mean?

Answer 10

Big man

Question 11

They worshiped what?

Answer 11

Their deceased ancestors

Question 12

Why did they have to appease the ancestors?

Answer 12

Because they believe that they control their future and give them good fortune.

Question 13

What was the center of Chinese society?

Answer 13

Family was at the center

Question 14

What are oracle bones used for?

Answer 14

They are used to obtain advice/predict the future

Question 15

Chinese script writing

Answer 15

Basis for Chinese system of writing.
Pictographs
Very complicated with between 1500 to 10000 characters(letters) to be learned

Question 16

What was the major first dynasty city?

Answer 16

Anyang

Question 17

Who is Wu?

Answer 17

He overthrew the Shang dynasty around the year 1027 B.C and established the Zhou Dynasty.

Question 18

During the second dynasty, they started to worship who?

Answer 18

Tian (heaven)

Question 19

Dynasty cycle

Answer 19

1 founded
2 prosperity
3 decline
4 rebellion and replaced

Question 20

Ruler’s title changes to what?

Answer 20

(Tian) Son’s of Heaven

Question 21

Mandate of Heaven (right to rule from power) how rulers came to power! What was a sign they had lost the mandate.

Answer 21

natural disaster, high taxes and corruption were signs from heaven that they had lost the Mandate of Heaven.

Question 22

Feudalism

Answer 22

government in witch kings, lords, and nobles rule.