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Warm-up Questions 10/18/19
Refer to the map located on page 170 to answer the following questions:
What northern geographical feature helped to protect the Shang Dynasty from attack?
What river seems to be the birth place of early Chinese civilization?
Ancient China
Geography of China
Ancient Civilizations
Mr. Hollingsworth – World History
Friday – October 18, 2019
Today’s Learning Targets
I will use academic vocabulary of this region and time
appropriately.
I will locate key geographical features of China on a
map.
I will evaluate the role that geography played in the
location of China’s first civilizations.
Warm-up Questions
Referring to the map on page 170:
What northern geographical feature helped to protect the Shang Dynasty from attack?
The Gobi Desert
What river seems to be the birth place of early Chinese civilization?
Huang He (Yellow River)
Reading Check Questions
What geographical features limited travel in China? Mountains and deserts
Reading Check Questions
What were some features of China’s earliest settlements? homes in villages buried partly underground, straw covered
roofs, animal pens, storage pits, cemeteries, walls to protect settlements from flooding and hostile neighbors, water wells
Reading Check Questions
What is a major historical difference between the Xia and Shang dynasties? Archeologists have not been able to find any evidence of the
Xia dynasty, but have found artifacts and other evidence from the Shang dynasty.
Geographies Impact
Get into your SATs.
You will see a series of questions on the following slide. Write down the questions and then work together in your teams to determine the answer using the map which will be shown on the screen.
Geographies Impact
Write these questions down. Where is the most likely location of the development of the
first civilizations?
When trade developed, what do you think the trade routes looked like?
What geographical features influenced the routes that trade took? How?
What types of weather does China have in the various regions?
Key Terms Review
A prediction
oracle
A hard gemstone.
jade
Key Terms Review
To alter or change, to differ
vary
1) Xi River
2) Yangzi River
3) Yellow River
4) South China Sea
5) East China Sea
6) Yellow Sea
7) Sea of Japan
8) Pacific Ocean
9) North China Plain
10) Manchurian Plain
11) Gobi Desert
12) Taklimakan Desert
13) Plateau of Tibet Map Colors:
Water – Blue
Fertile Lands – Green
Deserts – Yellow
Mountains – Brown
Plateaus – Light Orange
SurveyIf mountain ranges run from north to south in China, in which directions do the rivers run?
west to east
What does the mouth of the Huang He River empty into?
Yellow Sea
Unit Key Terms
The following are the key terms for ancient China. Set up your notebook for Ancient China and begin defining the key terms: jade, oracle, lords, peasants, ethics, Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, Great Wall, sundial, seismograph, acupuncture, silk, Silk Road, diffusion, vary, structure, innovation, and procedure.
FAREWELL TAO 98
We part at the crossroads,
You leave with your joys and problems, I with
mine.
Alone, I look down the road.
Each one must walk one’s own path.
Deng Ming-Dao
Today’s Learning Targets
I can use academic vocabulary of this region and time
appropriately.
I can locate key geographical features of China on a
map.
I can evaluate the role that geography played in the
location of China’s first civilizations.