Transcript Chapter 7 Section 1 Geography and Early China

Chapter 7 Section 1
Geography and Early China
China’s Physical Geography
• China covers an area
of nearly 4 million sq.
miles, about the same
size as the United
States. China’s
boundaries isolated it
from the rest of the
world for thousands of
years. What are they?
(look in your book)
Physical Map of China
Rivers of China
China’s
Rivers
today
.
Grades I and II are
qualities good
enough for drinking.
Presently, grades III
to V are polluted and
unusable, even for
agriculture
They have a lot
of cleaning up
to do!
China Today
Large cities
Of China
The Chang Jiang River
What is another
name
for this
river?
The largest river in China
and the 3rd largest
river in the world.
Huang He River
What is its other name?
What gives this
river its color?
Tibetan
Plateau
2nd largest
River in
China
Flooded rivers in China left silt
deposits.
• What happened as a
result of this?
Civilization Begins in China
Huang He
river produced
farming and
civilizations.
Mountains
and desert
made travel
difficult and
isolated
China.
• Good farming
• Lg. amts. of rain
• Rice is main crop
The Xia (Shah) Dynasty
What are the facts?
Yu the
Great
Shang Dynasty
What are the facts about the
Shang Dynasty ?
• Facts
Check your Shang facts!!!
• *The social order under the Shang Dynasty was:
nobles, artisans, farmers, slaves. *
• *Priests carved questions about the future on
bones or shells which were heated, causing
them to crack, Priests believed they could
predict the future by interpreting cracks on
oracle bones. *
• *The Shang were the first people in China to
develop a writing system. *
Summary…
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Huang He
River