Exam 4: Agrarian Centers and the Mandate of Heaven in Ancient China, 5000-481 B.C.E

Wanguo is the Chinese term describing its mythical period down through the end of the third millennium BCE as the land of:

One of the earliest compilations of ancient Chinese writings available, the Shujing or Book of History, is an important documentary source of information regarding China's:

The Spring and Autumn Chronicles depict a world in which repeated attempts are made to create a stable political and social order among the 15 major ___________ states.

The ________________ on Shang chariots permitted easy storage and repair.

Members of the _________ class, drawn from the lower aristocracy and wealthier commoners, would become some of China's most famous thinkers, starting with Confucius.

Lady Ji of the state of Lu was praised for her ability to ______________.

Shang and early Zhou ritual vessels themselves, with their richly stylized ________ motifs-fanciful abstract reliefs of real and mythical animals incorporated into the design-are utterly unlike anything outside of east Asia.

Most historians would agree that geography is a ____________ factor, among many others, in determining how a civilization develops.

Written Chinese characters became increasingly stylized and moved away from ___________ or pictographic languages.

In the poem "Cypress Boat," from the Book of Songs, a woman laments __________.

According to Chinese legend, the Yellow Emperor's rule was followed by that of the three ___________ kings, who set the example for strong moral leadership and passed power to the land's most worthy men.

The Shujing acclaims Yu, the last sage King, as:

Even in its archaic form, the Chinese writing system contained two basic types of characters, one of which was _____________, or pictures representing ideas.

The written characters for "sun" and "moon" placed together came to mean "__________."

The ____________ River gets its name as the result of the loess-a light, dry, mineral-rich soil deposited by strong winds-that it picks up as it flows.

The burial site of Fu Hao, the most prominent of the _____ wives of Wu Ding, was discovered in 1975, together with the sacrificial skeletons of 16 people and six dogs.

An expeditionary force led by king Wu Ding in the late 13^th century BCE numbered more than ____________ men.

As in Gangetic India, ________ weapons, tool, and farm implements were instrumental in opening up new lands for cultivation and multiplying the deadliness of warfare.

The most far-reaching agricultural innovation in the area south of the North China Plain was the development of:

A civil war in and ultimate partition of the state of Jin in _____________ marked the formal opening of the Warring States period.