1. Chapter 7 Section 1 Geography and Early China

2. 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 China’s physical boundaries? (look in your book,pg 182)

3. Physical Boundaries Mountains Deserts Oceans
Characteristics: rivers, plains, plateaus

4. Physical Map of China

5. Regions of China
What is the weather like in the different regions of China?
Northwest
Northeast -Southeast

6. Weather
Northwest
Northeast
Southeast

7. Huang He River What is its other name?
What was important about the Huang He river?
It flooded and layered the ground with silt.

8. The Chang Jiang River What did the Chang Jaing River do?
It helped connect eastern and western China.
Flooded and provided silt.
What is another
name
for this
river?

9. Flooded rivers in China left silt deposits.
What happened as a result of this?
Farmers were able to farm:
Along the Huang He they farmed cereals like millet and wheat
Along the Chang Jaing they farmed rice

10. 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

11. Summary

12. The Xia (Shah) Dynasty What was significant about the Xia dynasty?
Dynasty: series of rulers from the same family.
Their stories helped explain geography, and told about how kings worked with people to help solve problems.
Yu the
Great

13. Shang Dynasty

14. Shang Dynasty
How was their social hierarchy organized?
What was significant about the oracle bones?
What advances did the Shang dynasty make?

15. 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. *

16. China Today
Large cities
Of China

17. Summary… Write Your Own!!!!
Huang He
River