Notes:
1. Bureaucracy- Organization of government into agencies and departments.
2. Yin and Yang - powers that govern the natural rhythms of life and must be balanced.
River Dynasties in China: pages 50-56
1. Complete the following timeline:
____________________________________________________________________________
_________B.C. ___________B.C. 1500 BC
Ur is a flourishing Eygptian pyramids China builds its first cities
City and
Indus valley cities built
2. Part of the reason for the endurance of China’s civilization is China’s__________________________.
3. Name 6 of the geographic barriers that isolated China:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
4. What are the 2 major rivers of China?
5. Almost ____________of China’s land mass is either __________________or ______________________.
6. Where is most of the arable (suitable for farming) land located in China?
7. What was the attitude of the Chinese towards people who lived outside their civilization?
8. The Chinese saw their country as the center of the world and they called it the
___________________________________.
9. The English name for the Huang He River is the _____________________________.
Why is it called that?
10. The catastrophic effects of the flooding of the Huang He is why it is sometimes called
__________________________________________.
11. Humans have inhabited China for _________________________.
12. What was the first dynasty to come to power in China?
The dates of the Shang Dynasty are:___________________________________.
13. What are 2 important reasons why we have a lot of information about the Shang?
14. Which had greater value in Chinese culture, the individual or the group?
15. Duties were owed most of all to which 2 authorities?______________________and
____________________.
16. What was the most important virtue in Chinese society?
17. ____________controlled the family property and made decisions, while women were
treated as_______________________.
18. What was the only way a woman could improve her status?
19. The family in China was closely connected to _______________________.
20. Who had the power to bring good fortune or disaster to a Chinese family?
21. How did Chinese regard the spirits of the ancestors?
22. What was the relationship between the written and spoken language of China?
23. What was the advantage of their system of writing?
24. What was a major disadvantage of the Chinese system of writing?
25. Just to be barely literate, Chinese had to learn______________characters and to be a scholar required learning _______________characters.
26.. What effect did the Chinese system of writing have on their culture?
27. What group formed a special class in Chinese society?
