Transcript ANIMAL BONES THAT CHINESE PRIESTS AND EMPERORS

ANIMAL BONES THAT
CHINESE PRIESTS AND
EMPERORS USED TO
FORETELL SPECIFIC
QUESTIONS
ORACLE
BONES
THE MIDDLE
KINGDOM
WHERE CHINESE
CULTURE BEGAN
ZHONG GUO
THE YELLOW SOIL THAT
ENRICHED THE YELLOW
RIVER VALLEY AFTER
FLOODS
LOESS
THIS DESERT PROTECTED
CHINA FROM BEING
INVADED FROM THE
NORTH
GOBI DESERT
A FORM OF
WRITING USED
BY THE CHINESE
SCRIPT
THE MYTHICAL FIGURE
THOUGHT TO HAVE
FOUND CHINA’S FIRST
DYNASTY
YU THE GREAT
EARLY CHINESE
CIVILIZATION STARTED
NEAR THIS RIVER
HUANG HE RIVER
(YELLOW RIVER)
TWO RIVERS ON THE
NORTHERN CHINESE
PLAIN
CHANG JIANG RIVER
(YANGTZE RIVER)
XI JIANG RIVER
THE FIRST RECORDED
CHINESE DYNASTY
SHANG DYNASTY
THE ANCIENT CHINESE
CAPITAL CITY
ANYANG
THE SECOND RECORDED
CHINESE DYNASTY
ZHOU DYNASTY
HE OVERTHREW THE
SHANG DYNASTY AND
FOUNDED THE ZHOU
DYNASTY
WU
THE AUTHORITY TO
RULE FROM HEAVEN
MANDATE
NAME SIX
CHARACTERISITCS OF
MOST ANCIENT
CIVILIZATION
BUILT NEAR RIVERS
RULED BY DYNASTIES
BELIEVED IN POLYTHEISM
WERE FARMERS
USED SYMBOLS FOR WRITING
HAD STRICT LAWS