Ancient China Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• huang he river : also known as the yellow river produced by yellow silt, which was very fertile and brought bountiful harvests
• chiang jiang river : river providing a more steady and consistent course for travel and farming
• north china plain : located between 2 rivers; fertile plain lay close enough to the rivers to allow for irrigation and have very adequate farmland
• feudalism : an economic system in which kings or rulers granted land to subjects in exchange for the subject working the land to grow crops
• dynasties : powerful rulers coming from the same family
• shang dynasty : came to power in 1600bc; established social hierarchy with king at top, warlords next and peasant farmers at the bottom.
• oracle bones : pieces of animal bone were often things like tortoise shells or rhinoceros’ horns; used by shang priest to communicate with their ancestors
• mandate of heaven : blessing of the gods; kings believed their rule was made legitimate by this mandate
• dynastic cycle : a pattern of rise and fall (of ruling dynasties) that came to characterize the rule of many chinese dynasties during the 1000 bc