AP World History #10 Flashcards

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