Socials 8 China Unit 1

Question 1

What is a civilization?

Answer 1

An advanced state of development in a human society

Question 2

What is a dynasty?

Answer 2

A succession of rulers from the same family. A period of time during which they ruled.

Question 3

What are steppes?

Answer 3

A vast treeless plain of Europe or Asia

Question 4

What is loess?

Answer 4

Packed silt that was deposited by glaciers, makes very fertile land good for crops

Question 5

What are the eight features of civilization

Answer 5

Social structure, Central government, religion, commerce, pubic works, technology, knowledge transfer, Art/Culture

Question 6

What are the four types of maps?

Answer 6

Political, physical (topographical), thematic, historical

Question 7

What is a political map?

Answer 7

A map that shows political boundaries such as provinces or countries. Shows names of cities and towns

Question 8

What is a physical or topographical map?

Answer 8

A map that shows physical land form features, mountain elevations, rivers

Question 9

What is a thematic map?

Answer 9

A map that displays information such as a population distribution, pollution levels, weather map, a temperature map,

Question 10

What is a historical map, such as past boundaries or moves of an army during war?

Answer 10

A map that shows how things were in the past.

Question 11

How did mountains promote settlement on the North China Plain?

Answer 11

they gave protection from enemies

Question 12

How did desert promote settlement on the North China Plain?

Answer 12

it gave protection

Question 13

How did jungle promote settlement on the North China Plain?

Answer 13

it gave protection

Question 14

Name the two major rivers in China

Answer 14

Huang He (means yellow river) in the north, and the Yangtze river in the south

Question 15

How did being near ocean promote settlement on the North China Plain?

Answer 15

transportation, food, protection, and able to see invaders coming

Question 16

How did being between two rivers promote settlement on the North China Plain?

Answer 16

transportation, very fertile land for growing food, because the rivers flood

Question 17

How did being near a river promote settlement on the North China Plain?

Answer 17

a freshwater source, and food

Question 18

How did flat land promote settlement on the North China Plain?

Answer 18

easy to build homes on and easier for farming

Question 19

How did temperatures promote settlement on the North China Plain?

Answer 19

warm temperatures is good for farming and for survival

Question 20

What is China’s climate like?

Answer 20

There is a big difference between north and south. North is sub-artic cold winters and dry summers, south is subtropical with mild temperatures and lots of rain.

Question 21

How did rainfall promote settlement on the North China Plain?

Answer 21

moderate rainfall is good for growing crops

Question 22

What are the six Chinese Dynasties

Answer 22

Shang, Zhou, Qun, Han, Sui, Tang

Question 23

What philosophy did the Shang Dynasty follow?

Answer 23

Animism, they believed that people should have a positive relationship with nature spirits. If you don’t, bad things will happen.

Question 24

What are ‘dragon bones’ writings?

Answer 24

the earliest writing that showed how Chinese culture started 1600-1050 BCE

Question 25

Around 1600 BCE what happened to the people in the little villages

Answer 25

Warriors called the Shang, who ruled from a fortress at Anyang, took over

Question 26

What did the Shang warriors do to these people and their homes?

Answer 26

Divided them up into regions ruled by nobles who pledged loyalty to the Shang king

Question 27

How did you get to be a noble?

Answer 27

You had to be the head of a clan, which often claimed to have a common mythical ancestor

Question 28

Where did nomadic (wandering) warriors live and fight?

Answer 28

The northern steppes

Question 29

What is a society?

Answer 29

A community with the agreed upon customs and organization

Question 30

What is a noble?

Answer 30

A person who receives a high rank in society because of the family they were born into, often the head of a clan

Question 31

What is a clan?

Answer 31

A group of people who are descended from the same ancestor

Question 32

In Shang times, what kind of houses did kings and nobles live in?

Answer 32

Wood or stone

Question 33

Where did artisans live?

Answer 33

Near the capital where rich people lived, so they could sell what they made.

Question 34

What did most people do for a living?

Answer 34

Most people were farmers in the Huang He valley

Question 35

How did the fertile land help people?

Answer 35

The farmers could grow more food than they could eat (a surplus) which let the population grow

Question 36

How did a surplus of food change what jobs people could do?

Answer 36

Other people could have new jobs such as metal worker and trade tools for food

Question 37

Did peasants have a nice life?

Answer 37

No it was harsh. Houses were dug into the oil and roofed with thatch (reeds/twigs), they labored for food, and were forced to build roads or fight with no pay

Question 38

What did peasants have to build to prevent flooding?

Answer 38

Dikes along the Huang He river to keep the water out of the fields

Question 39

Why was Emporer Yu a good leader?

Answer 39

He did not take a break even to see his family for 13 years, he worked to stop the flooding, and people respected him

Question 40

How was Shang culture a 'hotbed' of ideas?

Answer 40

developed a new system of writing, they made fine pottery, new dish shapes that are still used, metalworking in bronze

Question 41

What was unusual about the metal working?

Answer 41

Making bronze 'monster masks' representing gods and spirits, used to make religious items used by royalty

Question 42

What material did the Shang perfect?

Answer 42

silk making

Question 43

What is a surplus?

Answer 43

What is left over after requirements are met ie extra crops that a farmer can sell

Question 44

What is a thatch roof?

Answer 44

a roof made of straw or reeds

Question 45

What is a dike?

Answer 45

A construction made to hold back water

Question 46

What is silk?

Answer 46

A delicate cloth made from the strands of silk spun by silkworms to make their cocoons

Question 47

What is animism?

Answer 47

the belief that natural things, such as trees, rocks, rivers, starts and locatins have a spiritual existence as well as a physical one.

Question 48

What were the three things Shang felt surrounded by?

Answer 48

Many gods, nature spirits, ancestor spirits

Question 49

Who was Shang Di

Answer 49

the high God, who sent good harvests and victory in battles. He controled thunder and rain. He could also make you lose and have bad harvests

Question 50

Who was Huang Hi

Answer 50

a nature spirit (this is a form of animism)

Question 51

Who would the Gods only listen to?

Answer 51

The king's dead ancestors' spirits could talk to the Gods, and the king could only talk to his ancestor's spirits.

Question 52

Did the Shang worship their ancestors?

Answer 52

No they just asked them for help

Question 53

How did the Shang communicate with spirits?

Answer 53

They wrote on 'dragon bones'

Question 54

What are the two parts of Shang religion that are still used today?

Answer 54

Feng Shui and Yin/Yang

Question 55

What is Yin/Yang?

Answer 55

Opposites. Yin is earth, dark feminine. Yang is heaven, light and masculine

Question 56

Are yin/yang in conflict?

Answer 56

No, they are part of the whole and the two forces depend on each other.

Question 57

What is Feng Shui?

Answer 57

Feng means wind and shui means water. They represent how the environment has an affect on human well being

Question 58

What is Qi?

Answer 58

(Chi) the natural force that travels in wind and water

Question 59

Who defeated the Shang Dynasty?

Answer 59

The Zhou

Question 60

What happened to the last Shang king?

Answer 60

He was captured by the Zhou and beheaded!!!