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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.