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Ancient China Quiz
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| loess | a dusty, yellow soil |
| North China Plain | a plain in northern china that floods a lot |
| famine | widespread shortage of food |
| Chang Jiang | a river in southern china |
| gorges | a gorge occurs when a river flows through a steep mountain pass |
| Shang Dynasty | an early dynasty in ancient china |
| Anyang | The capital of the Shang Dynasty |
| Dynasty | a line of rulers in the same family |
| Huang He | A river in northern china that starts in the Tibetan Plateau |
| Tibetan Plateau | a large high plain north of the Himilayas |
| steppes | a dry, treeless plain |
| Fu Hao | the wife of the king Wu Ding |
| oracle bones | bones read by priests to predict the future |
| Wuwang | the king of the Zhou Dynasty |
| Mandate Of Heaven | the belief that the right to rule comes from the gods |
| Duke Of Zhou | Wuwang's brother |
| Warring States Period | a period where the rulers went to war on each other |
| Lao Zi | a famous Chinese thinker |
| Daoism/Taoism | Lao Zi's foundation of teachings |
| Confucious | China's most famous scholar who lived during the Warring States Period |