River Dynasties in China

2. The Yellow River is the ____________ in Chinese.

• Yangtze

• Huang He

• Chang Jiang

The first Chinese Dynasty to leave written records.

• Shang

• Yu

• Xia

What was it called when the people believed that the emperor of China was given the right to rule by the gods?

China’s heartland, the center of its civilization

• North China Plain

• Middle Kingdom

• Taklimikan Desert

• Plateau of Tibet

The name the Chinese used to describe their own country as the center of the civilized world

• Middle Kingdom

• Middle World

• Mandate of Heaven

• Manifest Destiny

A political system in which nobles, or lords, are granted the use of lands that legally belong to the king

• monarchy

• theocracy

• dictatorship

• feudalism

The pattern of rise, decline, and replacement of ruling families in China

• democracy

• evolution

• feudalism cycle

• dynastic cycle

Which new dynasty defeated the Shang?

• Hyksos

• Zhou

• Han

• Confucius

______ was used to manufacture weapons such as daggers and swords.

• Iron

• Silk

• Bamboo

• Diamond

In the Shang Dynasty, Anyang was

• chief ruler
• capital city
• royal army
• state religion