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History
5.1 and 5.3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Huang River | One of China's two main rivers that provide farmers water for farming. It was the most important river for China's early history. Also known as the Yellow River. |
| Gobi Desert | One of the two deserts that surround China. |
| Pictographs | Pictures that represent words or ideas. The Shang people used these to write. |
| Phonemes | Distinct unit of sound |
| Chang River | One of China's two main rivers that provide farmers water for farming. It is China's longest river and it is also known as the Yangtze River. |
| Tibetan Plateau | Surrounded by two deserts, two rivers and the Himalayas, which made ancient Chinese civilizations isolated. |
| Logographs | A written character that represents a complete word or phrase (different from the English alphabet where each character represents a sound). |
| Loess | Fine, dust like material that comes from winds from the Gobi Desert. It can form soil. The Huang River picks up the Loess and it turns the river muddy and yellow. This makes soil that is easy to farm. |
| Dynasty | A ruling family that holds power for many years. |
| Shang | A dynasty that rose to dominate a large part of China and lasted 600 years. |
| Taklimakan Desert | One of the two deserts that surround China. |
| Oracle Bones | Earliest written records from China. They are animal bones or turtle shells carved with written characters that the Shang kings used to try to tell the future. |
| Dikes | Walls to hold back water that the Shang Dynasty built to control the floods along the Huang River. |
| Philosophy | A set of beliefs about the world and how to live. Confucianism and Daoism were two that developed in China. |
| Five Relationships | Confucianism belief that a stable, orderly society is based on 5 relationships: (1) ruler and subject; (2) father and son; (3) husband and wife; (4) older and younger brothers; and (5) two friends. He believed that the person of higher status should respect the senior person. |
| Dao De Jing | Book written by Laozi made up of poems that teach Daoism. |
| Income | Payments of money. Chinese people believed they should burn spirit money to provide income to their ancestors. |
| Spirit Money | Chinese ritual to honor the dead. It was fake paper money that Chinese people burned to give their ancestors income in the afterlife. |
| Filial Piety | The devotion of children to their parents. Confucius said this was the "source of all virtues." |
| Laozi | A sage or wise person that is said to have founded Daoism, although some scholars are not sure he was real. |
| Confucious | A great Chinese thinker known as the "First Teacher". He created Confucianism by teaching the wise ways of the ancestors. He created the Five Confusion Relationships. |
| Dao | Means the way or the path. Symbolizes the natural way of the universe. Basis of Daoism, which is an ancient Chinese way of life that emphasizes a simple and natural existence. |
| Yin and Yang | Great opposite forces. Yin is female, dark, cool and quiet. Yang is male, bright, warm and active. Chinese people believed that the balance between yin and yang was the key to harmony in the universe. |
| Analects | A book that contains Confucius' teachings and wisdom. |
| Sage | A wise person |
| Veneration | Practices of honoring the dead. |
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