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Who was Yu the Great?
Yu was able to control the waters of the Huang He River with channels he dug with the help of dragons.
What is loess?
Rich, yellow soil that is suitable for farming
What is another name for the Huang He?
The Yellow River
What is the deal with those oracle bones?
Kings instructed priests to scratch questions on the bones, such as "Will I win the battle?" The gods revealed answers after they were burned.
What are pictographs?
Characters that represent objects. For example, the Chinese characters for the sun and the moon are pictographs.
What are ideographs?
Another kind of character used in Chinese writing. They link 2 or more pictographs to express an idea. Two tree pictographs represents a forest, for example.
Sculptures, daggers, vases, cups, and urns were made of WHAT?
Bronze
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
The belief that the Chinese king's right to rule came from the gods-- The Mandate stated the idea that the gods chose a wise and good person to rule.
What chapter in our textbook are we studying?
Chapter 5
What is the name of the publisher of our textbook?
McGraw-Hill
On what continent is China?
Asia
What is the name of the tallest mountain on Earth? (It sits between Nepal and China.)
Mount Everest
1.4 billion, 2 billion, 2.4 billion-- which is the correct population (approximately) of China?
1.4 billion
Name three inventions attributed to the ancient Chinese.
paper, gunpowder, typesetting, the compass, porcelain, silk, iron plos
Who was Wu Zetian?
The only female emperor of China, dating back to the 600s
What is another name of a pass at the Great Wall of China?
gate
