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idiographs
pictgraphs
"random" words
look like what they describe
how many characters?
5,000+
2 groups in china
schologentry: elite=ran country

peasants= caused problems
yu=
founded ______ dynasty
great engineer
xia
oracle bones
buried bones, predicted with cracks
years of Shang Dynasty
1700-1046
3 contribuations of the Shang Dynasty
writing
bronze
war chariot
bone divination
fortelling of future by burning bones
jade artifacts=
chisels, axex, needles
what did the longshan culture bring?
pottery formed by wheel
relatively permanent villages
rituals
specailized jobs
1927= "__________ man"
peking man
in 1963
remains of a neolithic stone age body were found.
chinese civiliation is as old as
500,000 years old
what's the staple food?
rice
Where was the first movement after the first development at the Yellow River
yangzi river
where they cleared the rainforest and planted rice.
where was the first development?
Yellow River
Why was china so unified?
unified chinese language
early development of beaucracy
the emperor was responsible for the ______________________ of the empire

leading the __________-

the __________________ between __________ and ________.

performed _________ and symbolic acts

determined _____________________-------
well being of the empire
leading the bureaucracy

mediator between heaven and earth

performed rituals and symbolic acts

determined harvests and natural disasters
emperor = "_____ __ _________."
Son of Heaven
new dynasties usually happened after _____________.
after a new dynasty there was usualy an ______________________ growth.
After that there was a _________________________________of pwoer.
Then internal __________________
and fianally ______________
war
followed by economic growth
gradual loss of power
disintegration
COLLAPSE
Imperial emperor once said "____________________________"
he thought all other "_________________________________."
"I rule all under heaven"
"nations are inferior"
zhonghua = "_______ kingdom"
central
another name for china-
Zhonghua
Guangzhou/canton

important in______ china.
important in SOUTH CHINA
Chongqing
old, industrial, river port
Shanghai
seaport
populous
1/2 imports/exports pass through
Tianjin
foreign port
industrial city
what's the capital?
what kind of city does it have?
_______, ______, _______ center
Beijing
political, educational, cultural city
FORBIDDEn city lies within
what else could hydroelectric power do?
irrigate arid land
China's greatest energy potential (hint: not coal)
HYDROELECTRIC
what does china have besides hard coal?
tungsten
tin (18million metric tons p.y)
uranium
zinc
copper
most important energy related feul
HARD COAL
manchuarian plain= fertile or infertile
fertile
cash crop= crop grown for ______-
resale
afforestation=
planting trees to prevent soil erosion
loess soil= _________ soil
fertile
china is the leading supplier of ________.
grain
arable
suitable for farming
outer china Tibet= cold or hot?
how many inches of rain yearly?
nice or harsh winters?
cold
>1
harsh winters
South China
1. how many inches of rain per year?
2. what kind of winters?

Think South! like Flordia
1. 60 inches per year
2. Hot and humid winters
North China
weather
list:
1. what king of winters?
2. What kind of summers?
3. How much rain?
Think North-east US
cold/dry winters
hot summers
little rain
the summers are __________
humid, warm
China has monsoons in the sumer true/false
true
1/10 of the human race lives near the _______________
yangzi
The yellow river is called _____________ ___________ because it _________
China's sorrow

it floods
top 3 bodies of water
1. Yellow River (Huang He)
2. Yangzi
3. West River (Xi jiang)
tribuatries
small rivers
delta
mouth where the river flows into sea
dragon rivers have _______ and _____---
deltas
tribuatries
southwest = tropical _________
jungle
Largest desert =
Taklimaken
3 arms of the pacific ocean
1. yellow sea
2. east China sea
3. South china sea
top three planes where they have
+ farming

+ population
1. North China Plain
2. Yangzl Plain
3. Canton (Gaangzhou) plain
Tibetan plateau is located in the ___________ province
sichuan
China Slopes _____-- ______
west to east

think ...WE
or just the compass rose
how much of China is more than 1 mile above sea level?
60%
nomads
traveling heardsmen
steppe
treeless, non-arable land
Outer China holds the
______________ of the population
and the _____________ of the land
minority of the population
majority of the land
China proper has two parts:
1. _________
2. ___________
north
south
what divides china proper
different climates and farming
what do they grow in the south?
moist or dry climate?
name 1 river
rice
moist
Huai river
What do they grow in the north?
what's the climate? dry/moist?
What presides here?
What mountins?
wheat
dry
great wall
inling Mountians
China proper is __________ the size of the us and _____X its people
1/2
4x
list the 3 municipalities
beijing, tianjin, shanghai
what are the autonomous regions?

They are non-
self-governing
Tibet, Inner Mongolia
Chinese
china is divided into 3 sections
22 province
5 autonomous regions
3 municipalities
______________ mountians
pamir
how many square miles is China?
3,696, 032 square miles
name a symbol of wealth/beauty
lily feet/finger nails
list 3 dynasties
shang, chou, ching, han
panku
is the _______ story of china
spirits had a humanoid creatur on a lolob of matter he died
lice ----> _______________
beardd .......> _______________
creation
humans
stars
oracle bones= "________" bones
dragon
what do the Chinese call china?
chung ko
name some different rades
mongoloid, negroid, caucasoid
head emperor wore ______________________
dragon on back
ethnocentric
their culture is the one and only right one
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