Ancient China Quiz 1

1. What sea does the Huang He River empty into?

• Red Sea
• Yellow Sea
• Arabian Sea

2. Where did China's first farmers live?

• The North China Plain
• Yellow Sea
• Himalayas

3. How long did the Shang Dynasty rule?

• 100 years
• 400 years
• 600 years

4. China was geographically isolated by

• deserts, mountains, and oceans.
• goods and ideas.
• southern and eastern China

5. Shang kings used oracle bones to

• go swimming.
• communicate with the gods.
• farm.

6. The Shang system of writing used

• oracle bones.
• loess.
• pictographs.

7. Farmers controlled floods along the Hunag He by

• building dikes.
• building bridges.
• plowing fields.

8. What were the earliest forms of written language in Ancient China?

• goods and ideas
• cuneiform and hieroglyphs
• oracle bones and pictographs

9. Most farming in China was done on the ____________.

• North China Plain
• Takla Makan Desert
• Gobi