China

The Himalayan Mountains form a natural barrier because:

• they are in northern India

• they were impossible to cross until modern times.

• they divide Europe

• Mt. Everest is at the top.

A loess in China is ___________.

• Silt that helps plants grow.

• China's capital

• snow melt that waters the crops.

• a river that goes through Bejing.

This Chinese leader opened China to trade:

• Laozi Bgfin

• Buddha

• Mao Seng

• Deng Xiaoping

True or False: The Tibetan Plateau is a natural barrier.

• True

• False

A desert gets on average how much rain in a year?

• 5 in or less

• 10 in or less

• 15 in or less

• 20 in or less

Choose the INCORRECT Answer (only one)

How did natural barriers hurt China?

• there was less trade.

• it was more difficult to trade goods.

• it was more difficult to exchange ideas.

• invading armies conquored many parts of China.

Laozi developed the system that was called: ________

• Daoism

• Buddhism

• Muslim

• Confusionism

Kongfuzi encouraged people to __________.

• obey their emporer

• to follow the eight fold path

• to be honest, brave and wise.

• to worship the gods and goddesses

What limited China's contact with the outside world?

• long river

• natural barriers

• war with its neighbors

• lack of transportation

What are deserts a natural barrier?

• sand is hard to walk in

• they flood too much

• there a few sources of water.

• they are surrounded by large, dense forests.