🐲 8Chronology — Early Imperial China

Name the first three of China's dynasties.

• The Xia dynasty.

• The Huang dynasty.

• The Shang dynasty.

• The Zhou dynasty.

• The Confucius dynasty.

What are the names of two of China's main rivers?

• The Huang and Yangtze rivers.

• The Shang and Zhou rivers.

• The Fu Hao and Yallow rivers.

• The Yangtze and Zhou rivers.

• The Po Ping and Dragon Warrior rivers.

What is a Dynasty?

• A dynasty is when a family controls an empire and who activity keeps that power to themselves.

• A dynasty is when a family is very wealthy and is constantly in the media.

• A dynasty is when a family has political power and and gives their children positions of power just because they are family.

• A dynasty is when a family hold government power and pass that power on to several generations.

In pre-imperial China, Xia king Yu the Great impressed his people by doing what?

• Xia king Yu the Great impressed the people by building dams and canals to control the flooding of the Huang River.

• Xia king Yu the Great impressed the people by naming his son the next ruler and building him a palace on the banks of the Huang River.

• Xia king Yu the Great impressed the people by uniting all the major cities into the Xia Kingdom.

• Xia king Yu the Great impressed the people by building the largest and most efficient army in all of China.

Match the following of China's dynasties that ruled China from c. 2010 BCE to c. 220 CE to the dates that they ruled, by dragging and dropping the correct matchllowing

• The Zhou dynasty.

• c. 221 — 206 BCE:

• The Xia dynasty.

• c. 2070 — 1650 BCE:

• The Warring States.

• c. 475 — 221 BCE:

• The Shang dynasty.

• c. 1050 — 221 BCE:

• The Qin dynasty.

• c. 1650 — 1050 BCE:

The Han dynasty ruled between which years?

• c. 475 — 221 BCE.

• c. 1050 — 221 BCE.

• c. 206 BCE — 202 CE.

• c. 1650 — 1050 BCE.

How did the Shang people leave written records to pass on knowledge and wisdom for historians in the future?

• The Shang people left records on animal skins, cured and dried for special circumstances.

• The Shang people left records on pottery tablets recording religious customs.

• The Shang people left records carved on animal bones (oracle bones used in ceremonies).

• The Shang people left records on engraved bronze scrolls recording burial customs.

What kind of knowledge and records did the Shang people preserve?

• Information hunting and fishing.

• Knowledge on religious customs.

• Knowledge on warfare.

• Information on farming.

• All of these.

Match the benefits that each dynasty brought to the Chinese people with the Early China Dynasties that ruled.

• Zhou dynasty.

• Keep records, organised cities and produced bronze weapons, pottery and jade items.

• Shang dynasty.

• Permitted the nobles to use the king's land and divide it amongst the peasants.

• Xia dynasty.

• Build dams and canals to control flood water.

Along with the Zhao State, which other 6 states remained after the chaos and confusion of the nobles trying to take power from the King for themselves (during the Warring States).

• Chu State.

  Han State.

• Qi State.

  Qin State.

• Wei State.

  Yan State.

• Yang State

  Shi State.