Bones, Bronze, Land and Dynasties

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  1. 2. Which country has had the longest-lived empire of all?
  2. 4. The Zhou emperor used his _______ members to rule the Empire.
  3. 9. In the Shang ritual, Chinese priests wrote on ________ bones.
  4. 10. Many Chinese wooden objects, including coffins, were painted with dozens of layers of a special kind of clear paint made from tree sap. This paint is called _____________.
  5. 12. They wrote to a particular ancestor/god named _________.
  6. 14. The Chinese believed that they could not communicate directly with the gods. This had to be done for them by their _______________.
  7. 16. The ritual foods being cooked in the ding were being cooked by the emperor to please their ancestors and the_____.
  8. 20. The Zhou that said the gods gave the King the power and right to rule: the Mandate of _________
  9. 22. A message to the ancestors had to be inscribed [written] in characters on the _____________ of the bronze ritual bowl.
  10. 23. The priest doing the prediction with oracle bones were asking _____/no questions.
  11. 28. Like the Mesopotamians and Egyptians, early Chinese civilizations used __________ techniques to bring water to fields.
  12. 30. Northwest China is covered by_____________?
  13. 33. After the fall of the Eastern Zhou dynasty began a chaotic period called the Warring _______ Period.
  14. 34. The yellow dust blown across north of China comes from the _________ Central Asia.
  15. 35. Playing music was an important part of the ritual of burial. What “instrument” was struck to make a ringing sound?
Down
  1. 1. What high mountain chain is in the far west of China?
  2. 3. Beginning with the Zhou Dynasty, the Chinese referred to themselves as The _______ Kingdom.
  3. 5. Loess is blown into the river and gives it a _______appearance.
  4. 6. In 1050 B.C. these western neighbors of the Shang, rose against the Shang and defeated them in battle.
  5. 7. What did the Shang breed in order to pull or power their war chariots?
  6. 8. Most of the oracle bones were first unearthed by _____________.
  7. 11. What is the name of the emperor who unified China in 221 B.C.?
  8. 13. The animal oracle bones were first called ________ bones
  9. 15. Longer pieces of information were written on wood __________.
  10. 17. The museum that houses the emperor's ritual bowl looks like the object, and is called a ______.
  11. 18. During the Warring States Period, Sun Tzu wrote a famous book on military combat called The Art of ____.
  12. 19. Another word for priest who predicts the future: __________.
  13. 21. This ritual object could only have been made by one person and one person only--the richest person in the empire--the _________ or king.
  14. 24. The Shang made tools, bells, weapons, armor, and ritual objects out of what?
  15. 25. Of the three early Chinese dynasties, which one may be mythic [imagined],since there is no evidence to prove it existed?
  16. 26. The Yellow River gets its name because of the yellow windborne [wind carried] clay dust called ____________
  17. 27. The Turfan Depression is also known as one of the 'furnaces' of China because of its incredible _________
  18. 29. The northern boundary of China is the ______ desert.
  19. 31. Many of the ritual bronzes were found in ________.
  20. 32. Who were followers-in-death? They were people close to the dead noblemen who were _______ and then buried with the nobleman.