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| 7391229189 | Who occupied most honored positions in China during the first 3 dynasties? | noble families and royal families | 0 | |
| 7391269974 | Who was able to afford bronze? | the wealthy classes | 1 | |
| 7391279509 | What did less privileged classes use for house-ware? | clay | 2 | |
| 7391299283 | What tomb contained a collection of bronze that weighed almost 11 tons? | Marquis Yi of Zeng | 3 | |
| 7391335889 | Where did bronzesmiths live during the Shang Dynasty? | houses built of pounded earth | 4 | |
| 7391361874 | Why were many artisans wealthy? | their importance to the ruling elites | 5 | |
| 7391371631 | When might long distance routes for trade have reached China? | during the Shang Dynasty | 6 | |
| 7391408406 | Who do legendary accounts credit with the invention of sails? | King Yu | 7 | |
| 7391419629 | What did Chinese mariners use before sails? | large ore-propelled vessels | 8 | |
| 7391435892 | Who did the peasants of the Chinese countryside live like? | neolithic peoples | 9 | |
| 7391452980 | How did the peasants serve the community? | they provided agricultural, military, and labor services for their lords in exchange for plots of land | 10 | |
| 7399167347 | Where did most slaves come from? | they were prisoners of war | 11 | |
| 7399179279 | What types of tasks did slaves perform? | hard labor such as clearing the fields and building city walls | 12 | |
| 7399503775 | What happened to many slaves during the Shang dynasty? | They were sacrificed in religious rituals | 13 | |
| 7399552094 | What type of society was China? | Patriarchal | 14 | |
| 7399552095 | What was important in Chinese religion? | Ancestor worship | 15 | |
| 7399552096 | What did the ancient Chinese believe happen to their ancestors after they passed away? | They would pass into another realm of existence from which they had the power to support and protect the surviving families if the descendants displayed proper respect and minister to the spirits needs | 16 | |
| 7399681457 | What types of things did descendants leave for the ancestors? | Tools, weapons, jewelry, food, drink | 17 | |
| 7399681458 | When could a family expect to prosper? | If all its members dead as well as living work cooperatively towards common interests | 18 | |
| 7399681459 | Who performed religious ceremonies in ancient China because of the absence of an official priest? | The patriarch of the family | 19 | |
| 7399681460 | Who was an example of a Woman who portrayed power in China? | Fu Hao | 20 | |
| 7399681461 | How did Fu Hao portrayed the role of a leader in ancient China? | She supervised her estate and presided over sacrificial ceremonies and she served on several military campaigns and once lead 13 troops into a successful operation against a neighboring state | 21 | |
| 7400502815 | What happened to women during the later Shang and Zhou dynasties? | They started living in the shadows of men | 22 | |
| 7400502816 | What did not play in important role in ancient China as it did in other societies? | Religion | 23 | |
| 7400502817 | What was the in personal heavenly power called? | Tian | 24 | |
| 7400502818 | What does Tian mean? | Heaven | 25 | |
| 7400502819 | What is the tian responsible for? | Bestowing and removing the the mandate the heaven | 26 | |
| 7400502820 | When did writing become popular in China? | During the Shang Dynasty | 27 | |
| 7400502821 | What were the prominent instruments used by fortunetellers in China? | Oracle bones | 28 | |
| 7402173209 | What type of bones did diviners use? | Broad bones such as shoulder blades of sheep or turtle shells | 29 | |
| 7402173210 | What did peasants who found the oracle bones later call them? | Dragon bones | 30 | |
| 7402173211 | What did the peasants who found the oracle bones do with them? | Sold them to druggists | 31 | |
| 7402173212 | What did druggist do with the oracle bones? | Ground them into a powder and re-sold as a medicine | 32 | |
| 7402173213 | What did most of the questions on the oracle bones relate to? | Day to day concerns of the Shang royal court | 33 | |
| 7402173214 | What did the oracle bones offer important information about? | And early glimpse of traditional he's writing | 34 | |
| 7402173215 | What did Chinese writing start out as? | Pictographs | 35 | |
| 7402173216 | What is a pictograph? | Conventional or stylized representation of an object | 36 | |
| 7402173217 | What did the can bind pictographs of mother and child mean? | Good | 37 | |
| 7402173218 | What did oracle bones and bronze products reflect? | Interest of the ruling elite class that commission them | 38 | |
| 7402173219 | What did the Zhou Dynasty produce large amounts of? | Books of poetry, manuals of divination and rituals, and essays dealing with moral, religious, or philosophical issues | 39 | |
| 7402173220 | What was one of the most popular works in the Zhou Dynasty? | Book of Changes | 40 | |
| 7402173221 | What is the book of changes? | The manual instructing diviners in the art of foretelling the future | 41 | |
| 7402173222 | What to books did aristocrats use? | Book of etiquette and the book of rites | 42 | |
| 7402173223 | What was the most notable classic work of China? | Book of songs | 43 | |
| 7402173224 | What was the book of songs also known as? | The book of poetry or the book of Odes | 44 | |
| 7402173225 | What was the book of songs? | Collection of verses on themes both light and serious | 45 | |
| 7402173226 | What happened to many of China's earliest literary works? Digital scale | They have deteriorated or been destroyed by humans | 46 | |
| 7402173227 | What happened when Chinese cultivators expanded to the north and west? | They encountered nomadic people who had built pastoral societies | 47 | |
| 7402173228 | Why couldn't agricultural societies flourish in the north and west grassy step lands of Central Asia? | The lands were too arid to sustain large agricultural societies | 48 | |
| 7402173229 | Did the grassy step lands of central Asia support? | Large herds of horses, cattle, sheep, goats, and yaks | 49 | |
| 7402173230 | What happened when the Indo European peoples in the western steps began to ride domesticated horses? | They were able to herd other animals more affectively | 50 | |
| 7402173231 | Happened when the Indo-European people in the western steps learned bronze metallurgy? | They created heavy wagons and their wagons became increasingly prominent | 51 | |
| 7402173232 | What often happened with the Chinese nomadic peoples? | They engaged in bitter wars since they were relatively poor and wanted to seize each other's wealth | 52 | |
| 7402173233 | Did the nomadic peoples imitate Chinese ways? | No | 53 | |
| 7402173234 | What was the Yangzi known as in China? | Chang Jiang | 54 | |
| 7402173235 | What does Chang Jiang mean? | Long river | 55 | |
| 7402173236 | What made the Yangzi River different from the yellow river? | It did not flood devastatingly | 56 | |
| 7402173237 | Did the cultivation of the rice depend on in the Yangze River? | Complex irrigation systems | 57 | |
| 7402173238 | What state challenged the Zhou Dynasty for supremacy? | Chu | 58 |
