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Chapter 4 Ancient Chinese Civilization (c. 1500 B.C.–A.D. 589) Test # 1. Mr. C. Dennison Cardinal Hayes HS Bronx. NY. dikes. Earthen walls built along a river to protect from floods. loess. fertile yellow soil. bureaucracy. Government organized into different levels and tasks.
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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
dikes Earthen walls built along a river to protect from floods.
loess • fertile yellow soil.
bureaucracy Government organized into different levels and tasks.
calligraphy • Chinese art of writing.
animism • Belief that spirits inhabit everything.
dialects • Variations of a language.
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.
Zhou • People who overthrew the Shang dynasty of China in 1122 B.C.
Xia • Line of kings ruling over a late Neolithic people in the Huang River region of China starting in about 2000 B.C.
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.
autocracy • Government in which the ruler holds absolute power.
civil service • Centralized system that runs the day-to-day business of government
leveling • Policy in which government uses price controls to balance the economic effects of farm surpluses or shortages.
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 ____________,
Shang The ________ may have cemented their power by introducing and controlling irrigation and flooding.
Xi • The three major rivers of China are the Huang, the Chang, and the ________.
Mandate of Heaven. • Rebels overthrowing a dynasty could justify their action by claiming the old dynasty had lost the ____________.
Xia • The rulers over the Neolithic people in China were the __________.
invaders • The Zhou dynasty fell because of infighting and military ________.