Social Studies – Chapter Ten – Section 2
Pages 280 – 285
1.  What is a dike?
2.  What is a dynasty?
3.  What are oracle bones?
4.  What is an ideograph?
5.  What does channel mean?
6.  What does interpret mean?
7.  When did the Xia Dynasty rule China?
8. What might have resulted had the rulers of the Xia Dynasty
not come to power?
9.  When did the Shang Dynasty begin?

Social Studies – Chapter 10  Section 3
Pages 286 – 291
1.  What does demonstrate mean?
2.  What does capable mean?
3.  What is the Mandate of Heaven?
4.  What is a warlord?
5.  What does chaos mean?
6.  What is a cavalry?
7.  The Zhou Dynasty replaced the
_________________________ rulers of China about 1050 B.C.
8.  The large _______________________________ kingdom
proved difficult to rule, and _____________________
eventually became divided into smaller
_____________________.
9.  How did the Mandate of Heaven idea set moral standards
for Chinese rulers?
10.  What steps did Zhou rulers take to better manage their
large kingdom?
11.  What caused the Zhou Dynasty to decline and eventually
collapse/fall?