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GO TO GEOGRAPHY:
Read the Introduction
Go to STORY
ANSWER FROM THE “Story”
ANSWER FROM THE “Notes”
1. a. Where was Nu Gua sitting?
Why is the Yellow River yellowish in color?
What is loess?
b. What did Nu Gua start making?
Why did civilization grow up around the Yellow River?
c. What did the clay models turn she made by hand
turn into?
What is loess specially good for making? Why?
d. What did the flecks of clay flipped from her
cane turn into?
e. How did she fix the hole in the sky?
What do the Chinese often call the Yellow R.? Why?
f. What did she use to hold up the corners
of the sky?
What do tortoises symbolize in China?
g. How did she stop the flooding?
What are “dykes” (English spelling of dikes)?
h. What did she ask Huangdi to do?
Who was the “Yellow Emperor”?
After 600AD, who could wear yellow in China?
i. What did people do in spite of Nu Gao’s wishes?
What did the people of ancient China think
was the only way to communicate with the Gods?
Go to EXPLORE:
2. Look at the map of the Shang dynasty and click on the cities.
a. What was the 2nd capital of the Shang dynasty? What modern city is it near?
b.
What was the importance of Anyang in the Shang dynasty? What was its ancient name?
c.
What ancient tomb is the only one found intact at Anyang?
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d. What have archeologists found at the city of Erlitou?
e.
Describe the knife found in Shilou.
3. Go to the map of the Western Zhou period. Click around.
What was the capital city of the Western Zhou, before they were forced to in 771BC?
What was the capital city after the Zhou were forced to flee in 771?
4. Go to the map of the Eastern Zhou period.
How many different states was China divided into at this time?
What does this map show about the political situation in China at this time?
5. Go to the map of the Warring States period.
How many states was China divided into at this time?
What do the dark black lines represent?
What was the purpose of these structures?
What do these structures tell us about the political situation in China at this time?
Go to CHALLENGE
6. Locate the following on this map of China: Desert, Steppe, Cold North East, Tibetan plateau, Bamboo forest,
Rainforest, Southern Coast, Yellow River (Huang He), Yangtze River
7. Play the challenge game several times. Then answer:
a. Describe the climate of the north-east corner of China. What animal lives there?
b. Describe the climate of the province called “Inner Mongolia”? How did the people who lived here live?
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c.
What is the lowest & hottest place in China?
d. Describe the climate of the plateau of Tibet. What special animal lives here?
e.
What river in China has a special kind of clay?
f.
What is the longest river in China?
g.
What special animal lives in the bamboo forests?
GO TO TIME:
Read the Introduction.
a. What were the names and approximate dates of the first 3 Chinese dynasties?
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b. What was left by the Shang on bones, turtle shells and bronzes?
c. Who did the Zhou rulers appoint to govern parts of their empire that they could not govern directly
themselves?
d. What happened in 771BC, after the Zhou ruler was killed? What happened later to the Zhou Dynasty?
e. What happened to the Zhou Dynasty in 256BC?
f.
Who was Qin Shi Huangdi, and what did he do?
2. Go to STORY.
a. What did the world look like at the beginning of time?
b. Who was Pangu, and where was Pangu born?
c. What did Pangu do at first?
d. What did Pangu decide to do next?
e. What happened to the lighter parts of the egg?
f. What happened to the heavier parts of the egg?
g. How did Pangu keep the sky and earth from crashing together?
h. What did Pangu finally do?
i. What did Pangu’s breach become
j. What did his voice become?
k. What did his left eye become? What did his right eye become? Which do you think the early people
thought was more important? Left or right?
l. What grew out of his body and limbs?
m. What grew out of his hairs?
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n. What grew out of his ticks?
3. Go to the Timeline in Explore
a. What was invented around 2900BC?
b. What was a “bi”? Where was it placed?
What was a “cong”? Where was it placed?
c.
Who was said to be the founder of the Xia dynasty? Why do we know so little about this dynasty?
d. What was the last capital of the Shang dynasty? What has been found there by archeologists?
e.
When did the first examples of true writing emerge in China, & what was this earliest Chinese writing
written on?
f.
What happened in 1050BC?
g.
What happened in 771BC?
What did the Zhou do then?
How did Zhou power change at this point?
h. Who was born around 604BC?
What religion did he found?
What are the basic beliefs of this religion?
What does “Laozi” mean?
i.
Who was born in 551BC?
How did he think disorder could be averted?
What practices did he encourage
What is filial piety?
j.
What happened in 220BC?
Tell 3 things that Qin Shi Huangdi did:
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What happened in 210BC?
What “guards” the tomb of Qin Shi Huandi?
When was Buddhist community first mentioned in China?
What was the Silk Road? What two cities did it link?
Name & define 3 Buddhist beliefs mentioned in the pop-up.
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m. When was gunpowder discovered?
What were the alchemists who discovered it trying to find?
m. When was Christianity (Gospel) first brought to China?
What did the Nestorian Christians believe?
4.Read the introduction to Challenge.
Into what units was the Shang calendar divided?
Into what units was it further divided?
5. Playing the game is optional. Try this game and make a chart your results for extra credit!!!
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GO TO TOMBS
What was the Chinese view of life after death? What did they put in their tombs?
2. Whom did the Chinese believe to be the link between people and the Gods?
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3. STORY
a. Explain why the Chinese tried so hard to please their ancestors.
b. Tell several things the Chinese did to please their ancestors, as explained in this story.
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4. EXPLORE the tomb:
a. Click on the Servant’s Burial Chamber
(1)What were “follower’s in death”?
(2)How many servants are buried in this room?
(3)Describe and draw 3 of the small items placed in the coffin with the servants.
Which do you like best?
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(4) Name, draw & tell the purpose of 3 types of VESSELS found in the servants’ tomb.
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b. Name, draw and briefly describe 3 types of WEAPONS found in the Weapons Room.
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Name, draw and briefly describe 3 types of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS found in the tomb.
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d. Go to the main burial chamber.
(1)Click on the Lord’s coffin.
* Why were jade pieces placed on the dead?
* What was placed over his face? Over his eyes?
* What was placed over the body?
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Click on the other 2 coffins.
 Who is in the coffin next to the lord’s coffin?
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What was the practice of “following in death”?
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Who was in the 3rd coffin?
5. PLAY the CHALLENGE. Tell what objects you chose for the tomb.
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GO TO WRITING
Read the introduction: How is Chinese writing different from our writing?
2. Read the story.
a. What was the cure for malaria?
b. What did Wang and his friend Liu notice about the bones they received from the apothecary?
c. What did Luo discover about the bones?
d. What had the peasants been doing when they found the bones with writing on them? Why?
e.
What did Luo discover that “dragon- bones” were?
f.
What were these bones used for?
g.
What did the diviner who used the bones long ago do with them?
h. What have archeologists learned from these bones?
3. Explore:
a. Click on the big bronze vessel and read about it. What was the purpose of the inscription on the
inside of the bronze vessel? Who read it?
Read the inscription. How does it read? (Across/down? Left/right or right/left?)
In general, what does the inscription ask for?
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b. Click on the bone. Outline the steps in the use of oracle bones to foretell the future.
c.
Click on the long wooden slip. Explain how wooden slips were used.
d. Click on the money. Then look at the five examples of Chinese money. Draw the five shapes.
4. CHALLENGE: Play the writing symbol game several times, till you “get the hang of it”.
Choose the 4 symbols. Give the word. Then draw the symbol for it.
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Go to CRAFTS:
Read the introduction. What 4 special crafts are mentioned in the introduction?
2. What did the Chinese believe about the supernatural qualities of jade that made it so special?
3. Story: What mineral does jade come from? What are its physical properties?
4. Go to Explore:
a. Click on the jade. Outline the 4 steps in making an object from jade:
b. Jade, cont. Read about the reasons why jade was so prized in ancient China. Which reason makes
the most sense to you?
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c. Jade, cont. Who wore jade in ancient China?
d. Click on the ceramics. What were the two methods of shaping a pot from clay?
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Ceramics, cont. What was the next step after shaping the pot from clay?
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Ceramics, cont. Which pot do you like best from the ones shown at the bottom? Draw its shape.
3. CHALLENGE: Play the silkworm challenge.
a. What is the technical name for raising silkworms?
b. Draw simple illustrations and use a few words to describe each step in raising silk worms>
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What do silkworms eat?
d. What is the effect of a lot of noise on silkworms?
e. How did your silk turn out?
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