History - China

With a written history extending over thirty five centuries, ____ is the world's oldest living civilization.

What are the two great river systems of China?

• Wang Chen and Yangtze

• Hung He River and Hueng HE

• Huang He and Yangtze

Who invented paper and when?

• Wang Chen in 1313

• T'sai Lun 105

• Genghis Khan 1280

• Ming Ching 1368

Who developed the first movable type?

• Pi Sheng

• T'sai Lun

• Confucius

• Huang He

True or false: because of the thousands of characters/symbols in the Chinese language, printing from wood blocks was more practical than the movable type.

• True

• False

The idea of complete unity of everything, assigning human characteristics to gods, animals, and even inanimate objects is called ________

True or false: Anthropomorphism is a humanistic view of nature that actually stifles mans' achievements.

• true

• false

Where did the first known Chinese civilization arise?

• Huang He Valley

• Shih Huang

• Ch'ou Valley

In the first known Chinese civilization, the ancient Chinese called their land ______-____

Around 1500 B.C., the ____dynasty came to power, the dynasty under which the Chinese began casting bronze, building horse-drawn chariots, and cultivating silkworms.