5.1 Huang Dynasty Quiz Study

What is a Loess?

• fine dustlike materials that can form soil

• a wall to hold back water

• bones or animals or turtle shells carved with characters used to tell the future

• something difficult to do

• pictures to represent words/ideas

What is an oracle bone?

• something difficult to do

• walls to hold back water

• bones of animals or turtle shells carved with characters used to tell the future

• a written phrase of herioglyphic

What is a dike?

• picture to represent words

• fine dustlike material to form soil

• to explain something

• a wall to hold back water

What is a Chinese pictograph?

• Pictures to represent words or ideas

• written characters to represent words or phrases

• fine dustlike material that forms soil

• wall for holding back water

What is a Chinese Logograph?

• A challenge

• Walls for holding back water!

• Written character to represent a word or phrase?

• A drawing of the Huang River

How many main rivers did China have?

• 1

• 2

• 4

• 9

Which river in China flowed east to the Yellow Sea, has loess in it which makes it Yellow, and it is Very Important

• Liaohe River

• The Pearl River

• Chang River (Tangtze River)

• Huang River (Yellow River)

What is China's longest river?

• Leone River

• Chang River (Tangtze River)

• The Huang River (Yellow River)

• The Pearl River

What was the significance of the Chang River? (Yangtze River)

• It was China's longest river, had goods move along it's waterways, and that farmers could easily plant crops in the soft soil near it, which helped create the first large settlements in China

• It was very important, flowed to the Yellow Sea, and looked Yellow

• It didn't have any significance

• Farming villages grew near it, they were able to use stone tools to make pottery and silk cloth, strong cheifs led warriors to take control of nearby villages, and One of the expanded villages founded the Shang Dynasty

What was the significance of the Huang River? (Yellow River)

• It was Chinas longest river, goods moved along it, and farmers could easily plant crops near it because of the soft soil there.

• It aided in China's climate changes

• It was very important, flowed east to the Yellow Sea, and the loess in it made it look Yellow.

• The first emperor, Shang, lived near it