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Chapter 2.4
Chapter 2.4
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1
Huang He's perilous floods caused the river to be nicknamed, which of the following?
China's Sorrow
China's Anger
China's Ominous
China's Awe
2
A person who memorized 1,500 characters was considered literate and a scholar
True
False
3
What is an oracle bone?
Something to tell of the past
A prediction of the future
A type of fruit
A bone in your body
4
People in China learned the same written language even if their spoken language differed
False
True
5
Women mainly improved their status by bearing sons
True
False
6
What is Loess?
A type of tree
A type of fish
A rich fertile soil
A Trade item
7
What were Zhou's tools mainly crafted from?
iron
silver
gold
bronze
8
What was Yu known for?
His flooding and irrigation projects
His talent and speed
His performances and entertainment
His songwriting and music
9
The period in time in which lords fought for power against one another was known as...
the time of unethical acts
the most ominous time of all
the notorious time of betrayal
the time of warring states
10
Anyang, the capital of the Shang Dynasty was mostly built with which of the following?
Wood
Cement
Marble
Mud
11
Which river valley civilization continues to thrive today?
The Yellow River
The Indus Valley
The Nile River
Tigris and Euphrates River
12
Huang He is also known as The Yellow River
False
True
13
Sumerians in Mesopotamia were the first to build settlements before the Chinese in Huang He
True
False
14
Mandate of Heaven meant...
cruel rulers would not be let into heaven
hubris rulers would be punished
royal authority came from heaven
poor rulers would be helped by heaven
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What is feudalism?
How churches operate
A ruling system based on land controlled by lords
The sucession of kings
Lack of social classes
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what is a oracle bone
an animal's bone or a snails shell
an animal's bone or a tortoise shell
a husk or a snails shell
a human's bone or armadillo shell
17
Noble children learned to write, but peasant children did not
True
False
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What was the Mandate of Heaven?
A set of laws that were dictated from the gods
A concept that said rulers were given authority to rule from the gods
The name of a legendary dragon from Chinese mythology
What the Ancient Chinese called their king
19
Which of the following negatively impact the China River Civilization?
invasions
geographic isolation
all of the above
flooding
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Who was Yu?
A poet and bard
An athlete and warrior
An artist and performer
A mathemetician, and engineer
21
Where was Loess located?
In the Delta
Along the Tigres and Euphrates
Along the Yellow and Yangtze
In the Nile
22
Define Dynastic cycle.
approval from the gods
when a dynasty is overthrown
evaporation of water into the atmosphere
a pattern of the rise and fall of dynasties
