1. Ch. 5.1 China’s River Valley’s
Ancient China is very large, depending on your location in China, climate, soil, waterways, and landforms vary greatly

2. A. Contrasting Climate and Landforms
The north china plain is located on the Huang River also location of highlands
They have a short summer filled with lots of rain and monsoons, but not much rain any other time

3. Climate in the south is warm most of the time and get rain nearly all year long
Most of the huge monsoon storms comes from off the South China Sea

4. B. Effects on Civilization
Geographic Barriers like mountains and seas separate the land of china
Because of this influence from Egypt, Nubia and even India was very little
These people believed they were at the center of the earth so they called themselves the Middle Kingdom

5. Like many other regions the rivers flood often bringing down
Like many other regions the rivers flood often bringing down ????? Which caused very fertile lands
This made the Huang River and the Chang River the main hot spots like the Nile was for Egypt

6. C. Yellow River Huang River is also known as the yellow river
This is due to its yellow-brown soil
When the river floods it deposits loess or yellow brown soil and provides prime growing areas

7. D. China’s Sorrows
The Huang River provided life with the crops by the large amounts of trade it allowed
However it also brought death with the many unexpected floods, sometimes they were so bad that entire cities were lost and the river even created new paths for it to flow

8. E. Flood Control
To help control this problem the Chinese built dikes or ditches made up of steep walls to contain the water
At times these weren’t even enough, but settlement still occurred due to the resources

9. II. Early Civilization in China
Early farmers were once nomads but once the rivers resources were noticed many settled
A. Shang Dynasty was the first in China
They were known for their bronze work, language, and writing systems

10. B. Zhou Dynasty
This dynasty bordered the Shang and like before sometimes it was peaceful and others it was not
China ruled this area for 1000 years but within this time wars over different kingdoms occurred all the time

11. C. Mandate of Heaven
Sometimes rulers inherited the throne while others won it only by war, either way they believed it was fate
This was called their mandate of heaven or the order things went in their lives in order to get to heaven

12. III. Importance of the Family
Family was the center of their life
Their number one responsibility was family
Most living arrangements followed the traditional style where one household might contain up to 5 generations including small kids, uncles, grandparents etc…

13. B. Family Authority
Authority depended on age and whether your were the male or female in the family
The oldest man had the power and he decided the discipline, who married his daughters, and gave out land to his sons

14. C. Women’s roles
Women were considered lower than man, and they had to follow 3 major obedience's
1) obey their fathers in youth 2) obey their husbands after marriage 3) obey their sons if they were widowed
They also followed 4 virtues: 1) morality2)modesty3) proper speech4) domestic skills

15. D. Family Matters
Chinese were known for using inherited names along with personal names
Ex. Washington, George
Last name showed family heritage and first name showed individualism