1. Mr. C. Dennison Cardinal Hayes HS Bronx. NY
Chapter 4 Ancient Chinese Civilization (c B.C.–A.D. 589) Test # 1
Mr. C. Dennison
Cardinal Hayes HS
Bronx. NY

2. dikes
Earthen walls built along a river to protect from floods.

3. loess
fertile yellow soil.

4. bureaucracy
Government organized into different levels and tasks.

6. calligraphy
Chinese art of writing.

7. animism
Belief that spirits inhabit everything.

8. dialects
Variations of a language.

9. 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.

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

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

12. 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.

13. autocracy
Government in which the ruler holds absolute power.

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

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

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

17. flooding
The Chinese built dikes along the bank of the Huang to protect against ____________,

18. Shang
The ________ may have cemented their power by introducing and controlling irrigation and flooding.

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

20. Mandate of Heaven.
Rebels overthrowing a dynasty could justify their action by claiming the old dynasty had lost the ____________.

21. Xia
The rulers over the Neolithic people in China were the __________.

22. invaders
The Zhou dynasty fell because of infighting and military ________.

23. End of Chapter 4 Test 1