What are the physical features of ancient china?

Answer 1

Economy

• The serfs and slaves preformed all economic functions of society
• Main income came from farming or the harvest of crops
• Many farmers also knew how to cultivate the silkworm and weave its tread into beautiful cloth which would be used for clothing
• Silk later became China's main export
• The artisans formed another group of the economic structure
• Many artisans manufactured weapons, ritual vessels, jewelry, and other items of interest

Political Structure

• The King, or wang, had supreme power over everything else
• He was both the political leader as well as the religious leader
• The King along with the aristocrats and bureaucrats directed the life and work of the peasants and serfs

Social Scale

• The King and his nobles sat at the top of the social ladder
• Warriors were also very powerful
• Most of peasants had very little and barely made it through the taxes that the king enforced

Religious Beliefs

• Shang Ti - head god, rules over all other gods
• The worship of ancestors was very important
• Sacrifices to the gods and ancestors

Cultural Achievements

· The Shang developed a very sophisticated form of writing

· Excellent bronze workers

· Very primitive agriculture

· A written language, the art of bronze-work, two-horsed chariots, the understanding of silk

· Used a calendar

· Created the first decimal system

Geographical Boundaries

· Yellow River

Philosophical Basis

· "In the works"

Outstanding Features

· The Yellow River Valley

Success/Failure

· Failure - King killed by Zhou rebels, the civilization coundn't stand up to the Zhou rebels

Basis For Civilization

· The Yellow River Valley

· Agriculture

· Knowledge of silk

Answer 2

Gobi Desert, Himalayas, The Great Wall,

Takla Makan Desert, Huang River,

Yangtze River, the Pacific Ocean, pandas

Answer 3

there were mountains lakes slopes rivers and stff like that.

Answer 4

• One is The Great wall of china which is probably the most important one of all,

Answer 5

Some physical features are the yellow river, yangtze river, the himalaya mountains, the gobi and taklamakan deserts.

Answer 6

The best example of the features of ancient China's history can be found by the existence of the Great Wall of China. Also, there remains many palaces of ancient dynasties still preserved.