1. Early Chinese Civilization
What are context clues?

2. Vocabulary
Legend- stories handed down from earlier times to explain the past
Ancestor- dead relatives farther back than grandparents
Oracle- a person who gives wise advice
Pictographs- drawings that make were combined to create thousands of words

3. Use your Context Clues!! True or False
Chinese civilization has a long and complex history.
China had contact with Sumer and other distant civilizations.
Settlements in ancient China developed into powerful city-states ruled by kings.
To read and write, a Chinese person had to learn as many as 5,000 pictographs.

4. Xia and Shang

5. Oracle Bones

6. Pictographs