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Ancient Chinese History Test 1
1) What is the name given to the physical features of land?
A) History
B) Geography
C) Land-mass
D) Steppe
2) Which of the following is not near China?
A) Gobi Desert
B) Pacific Ocean
C) Taklimakan Desert
D) Euphrates River
3) What is the name of the fertile yellow dust that covered parts of China?
A) Blackland
B) Silt
C) Loess
D) Fertilizer
4) What is a steppe?
A) Geographic feature
B) Mountain top
C) Large Grassland
D) Lowland Desert
5) What is a dynasty?
A) When power is taken by an invader
B) When power is passed down from generation to generation in the same family
C) When power is passed from generation to generation in a different family
D) When power is created by surveying the will of the people.
6) What dynasty do historians think was the first in China?
A) Shang
B) Xia
C) Zhou
D) Warring States Period
7) Who do some historians think was the actual first dynasty in Chinese history because of the presence of written records?
A) Shang
B) Xia
C) Zhou
D) Warring States Period
8) What is the name given to bones that were cooked in ovens in attempts to see the future?
A) Future Bones
B) Oracle Bones
C) Priest Bones
D) Almanac Bones
9) What is the name of the legendary founder of the Xia Dynasty?
A) King Wen
B) Yu the Great
C) Di Xin
D) Shi Huangdi
10) What is the name of the founder of the Zhou Dynasty?
A) King Wen
B) Yu the Great
C) Di Xin
D) Shi Huangdi
11) In four sentences, explain what the Mandate of Heaven was.
12) In three sentences, describe how geography influenced ancient Chinese history.
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