World history chapter 2 - China.

Zhou

After an invasion of nomads from the north, the ___ Correct. dynasty fell from power although it pretended to rule from the city of Luoyang for another 500 years.

Anyang.

Among the oldest and most important shang cites was?

Shang and Zhou.

Around 1027 B.C., the _ overthrew the _ dynasty, claiming that their actions were justified by heavenly powers.

Zhou overthrew the shang and established their own dynasty.

Around 1027 b.c., a people called the?

early setlers had to supply their own goods rather than trade.

Because of China's relative geographic isolation.

The huang hes floods could be disasterous.

one of china's challenges.

Roads and canals, counded money, blast furnaces.

what did the zhou dynasty produce?

Is a political system in which nobles, or lords, are granted the use of lands that legally belong to the kind.

what is feudalism?

The yellow seas, the east china sea, and the pacfic ocean.

what is located in East China?

The enormous number of written characters to be memorized.

what was the disadvantage of the chinese writing system?

The yellow river.

which river deposits a huge amounts of yellowish silt with it floods?

dynastic cycle.

Historians describe the pattern of rise, decline, and replacement of dynastices as the?

a homo erectus skeleton was found.

In northern china near beijing.

barbarians.

In the chinese view, people who lived outside of china were?

Taklimakan desert and the icy 15,000 foot plateau.

In west china lay the?

2/3 of China's landmass.

Mountain ranges and deserts dominate about?

Huang He and the Chang jiang in eastern China.

Much of the land lies within the small plain between the?

feudalism

The hugeness of China's territory prompted its rulers to establish a system known as _ in which all land is owned by the king, but nobles are granted rights to use it in exchange for their loyalty.

West and North.

The loess is blown by winds from deserts to the?

True.

The mandate of heaven became central to the chinese government?

Dynastic Cycle

The rise, decline, and replacement of families of rulers is called the?

1700 b.c. to 102 b.c.

The shady dynasty lasted from?

Loess.

The silt is actually fertile that is called?

shang di and oracle bones

The supreme god during China's first several hundred years as a civilization was _, who (along with other gods) was consulted through the use of

4,000 years ago.

The walls of China's first cities were built.

Zhou culture.

The zhou has adopted much of the?

Streteched far beyond the huang he in the north to the chang jiang in the south.

The zhough dynasty controlled lands that?

ideas to the chinese civilization.

The zouh rule brought new?

different regions to members of the royal family and other trusted nobles.

To govern this fast area, it gave control over?

farming.

Only about 10% of chinas land is suitable for?

The yellow river, and the chang jian.

What are the two major river systems that flow from the mountainous west to the pacafic ocean?

isolated china from all other civilizations.

What did natural barriers do for China?

that the spirits of family ancenstors has the power to bring good fourtune or disaster to living members of the family.

What did the chinese believe.

Yellow river.

What does the Huang He mean?

North China plain.

What is chinas heartland named?

desolate gobi desert and the magnolian plateau

What is in the North part of China?

Himalyas.

What is in the Southwest part of China?

Family.

What was central to china's society.

The shang dynasty.

What was the first family of the chinese ruler to leave written records.

People in all parts of china could learn the same system of writing, even if they spoke different languages.

What was the main advantage of the chinese writing system.

The chinese method of writing.

What writing system did china invent?

Huang he River and loess

China's first cities arose along the _ where yellow silt, called _, made the valley fertile.

North China Plain.

China's heartland or center of civilization

Outsiders.

China's natural boundaries did not completely protect these stellers from?

Shang.

Chinese civilization was shaped largely by the _ dynasty, which ruled for 500 years and was the first family of rulers to leave written records.