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30 Cards in this Set
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During _____________ ___________ people settled along the yellow river
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Neolithic Period
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The Neolithic people:
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donesticated animals improved their tools and developed agriculture
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Georgraphy of China
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intersedting mountain ranges
high desert and semidesert plateaus as you go south |
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China is __________ into _________ political sections
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divided
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2 political sections of China
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China Proper
Semiticule of Regions |
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Rivers of China
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Yellow
Chang Jiang XI |
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Yellow River
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Fertile yellos soil; worlds mudest river
cubic ft of water contains 1 cubic of silt |
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Cina developed isolation from cilizations of
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India nad the West
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What did China's isolation cause
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china to develop and retain its own distinctive culture they regarded their land and it Zhinggo
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What is Zhingguo
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middle kingdom
center of the world |
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China Dynastic Cycles
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Expansion; Regression; Collapse; founding
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Shang Dynasty
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began 1750 was the first dynasty
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Quing Dynasty
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eneded 1912 AD
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Shang Dynasty
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40,000 miles
Capital Anyang known warchariots and bronze weapons Domesticated animals pigs chicken |
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loess
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extradonary fertile soil
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Mandat of Heaven
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right to Rule
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calligraphy
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an artful writing
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oracle bones
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bones used by Chinese priests who wrote questions on the shoulder bones of cattle or the bottom of tortose shells
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autocracy
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a form of government in whic hte ruler holds toatal power
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civil service
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a system that administer the government on a day-to-day basis and whose members are usually appointed on the bassi of competitve examination
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acupuncture
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chinese meical pratice that involves insetion of needles
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silt
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Fertile soil carried as seiment in river water
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Three fertile river valleys
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nile
Tigris euphrates |
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What kind of soil nourishes the crops in Huang He valley in China
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loess
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Most rivers carry _____ which is deposited in the river bottome and along the valleys
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silt
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Chinese scholars used __________ for writing and perserving literarey works
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calligraphy
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Chinese citizens studied for difficult exams in order to be considered for jobs within the government
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civil service
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China is _________ and its two greatest rives are ____________-
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divided
separated |
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The ____________ _____
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is destructive and hard to control
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The _____________ spread knowledge and advanced civilazation
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Shang
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