10-1 Birth of Chinese Civilization

The Chinese sometimes call the Huang He

• the Middle Kingdom

• China's Sorrow

• the Gobi

• Chang Jiang

Ancient China had frequent contact with the rest of the world.

• True

• False

China's first dynasty was the

• Shang

• Han

• Qin

• Zhou

Early Chinese kings would ask for advice from the gods using

• pictographs

• ideagraphs

• bronze objects

• oracle bones

Shang artists made beautiful objects out of bronze.

• True

• False

The Mandate of Heaven meant that

• Chinese kings had a divine right to rule.

• following the Dao was the only way to govern.

• the Chinese army was destined to succeed in battle.

• the bureaucracy and the king were required to work together.

What new technology was developed during the Zhou Dynasty?

• melted bronze to make works of art

• channels to block flood waters

• new systems to irrigate the land

• silkworms to make clothing

Who built the first cities in China?

• Yu the Great

• the Shang

• the Xia

• the Zhou

a noble whose wealth comes from the land he or she owns.

• pictograph

• ideograph

• aristocrat

• ancestor

a person that someone is descended from

• ideograph

• pictograph

• ancestor

• aristocrat