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Chapter 4Ancient Chinese Civilization

(c. 1500 B.C.–A.D. 589)Test # 1

Mr. C. Dennison

Cardinal Hayes HS

Bronx. NY

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dikes

Earthen walls built along a river to protect from floods.

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loess

• fertile yellow soil.

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bureaucracy

Government organized into different levels and tasks.

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calligraphy

• Chinese art of writing.

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animism

• Belief that spirits inhabit everything.

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dialects

• Variations of a language.

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oracle bones

• Cattle bones or tortoise shells on which Chinese priests would write questions and then interpret answers from the cracks that formed when the bones were heated.

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Zhou • People who overthrew the Shang dynasty of China in 1122 B.C.

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Xia

• Line of kings ruling over a late Neolithic people in the Huang River region of China starting in about 2000 B.C.

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Shang

• Invaders of the Huang River valley who came to power sometime between 1750 B.C. And 1500 B.C. And established the first dynasty in China.

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autocracy

• Government in which the ruler holds absolute power.

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civil service • Centralized system that runs the day-to-day business of government

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leveling

• Policy in which government uses price controls to balance the economic effects of farm surpluses or shortages.

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Qin • Dynasty that came to power in China in 221 B.C., under which the first true empire of China was created.

flooding• The Chinese built

dikes along the bank of the Huang to protect against ____________,

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Shang The ________ may

have cemented their power by introducing and controlling irrigation and flooding.

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Xi

• The three major rivers of China are the Huang, the Chang, and the ________.

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Mandate of Heaven.• Rebels

overthrowing a dynasty could justify their action by claiming the old dynasty had lost the ____________.

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Xia

• The rulers over the Neolithic people in China were the __________.

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invaders• The Zhou dynasty

fell because of infighting and military ________.

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End of Chapter 4Test 1

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