Starter quiz
- The tomb of Fu Hao contained almost __________ objects.
- 100
- 200
- 1000
- 2000 ✓
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- Fu Hao’s tomb was found in which country?
- China ✓
- Pakistan
- India
- Egypt
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- Select all the different types of objects found in the tomb.
- bone ✓
- jade ✓
- paper
- bronze ✓
- shell ✓
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- The hard green stone used for making jewellery and other objects is called...
- 'jade' ✓
- Put the following into the correct order.
- 1⇔People lived in the ancient Indus Valley cities.
- 2⇔Fu Hao was a warrior queen in the Shang Dynasty.
- 3⇔The tomb of Fu Hao was discovered in China.
- Fu Hao was a queen and an important army general of the Shang Dynasty.
- True ✓
- False
Exit quiz
- Put these civilisations into chronological order, starting with the one that began the earliest.
- 1⇔Ancient Sumerian civilisation
- 2⇔Ancient Egyptian and Indus Valley civilisations
- 3⇔Shang Dynasty
- The Shang Dynasty was an empire.
- True ✓
- False
- The Shang Dynasty began around the ______ River.
- 'Yellow' ✓
- Select the features of Shang Dynasty cities.
- No walls
- Palaces in the middle ✓
- Water ditches from the Yellow River ✓
- Thick walls ✓
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- ______ weapons and armour helped the Shang Dynasty to defend their empire.
- 'Bronze' ✓
- The Shang Dynasty lasted for over __________ years.
- 500 ✓
- 5000
- 50,000
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Key learning points
- The Shang Dynasty began c.1600 BCE in the Yellow River Valley, later than the other major ancient civilisations.
- Like in Mesopotamia and Egypt, the Shang exploited the fertile land they lived in for extensive agriculture.
- Like in Mesopotamia and Egypt, the Shang built major cities including Anyang and Zhengzhou.
- Much like the Ancient Egyptians, bronze weaponry helped the Shang to build and maintain an empire.
Common misconception
Pupils may think that all these ancient civilisations existed at separate times.
Although beginning thousands of years apart, by the time of the Shang Dynasty, the Ancient Sumerian, Ancient Egyptian and Indus Valley civilisations were still going!
Keywords
Yellow river - the Yellow River is a large river that flows from central to eastern China
Empire - an empire is a group of nations or peoples under one ruler
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