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Web Quest for Ancient China
The British Museum
Go to http://www.ancientchina.co.uk/menu.html, and begin by clicking on
Geography, then click on the picture.
1. Read introductory page. Approximately how many people live in China? ______
A. What is the name of China’s lowest point?
B. Name the two most important rivers in China.
2. Click on ‘Story’ (to the left of the screen). Read, then answer the following
questions:
A. What is this story about?
B. How did Nu Gua’s method of making humans determine who would be rich
and powerful and who would be poor?
C. How did Nu Gua save the people from the flood?
D. What did the people on earth do to honor Nu Gua?
D. Critical Thinking. What 2 similarities did you find between this story of the
Chinese story of the beginnings of humans and the Sumerian origination story?
3. Click on ‘Explore’ (to the left of the screen)
A. Go to ‘Choose a Map’ and click on the downward arrow. Select ‘Modern
Political’. Name 2 cities on the Yellow River.
B. Go back to ‘Choose a Map’ and select ‘Warring States’. Name four states
that are bordered by a ‘Wall’
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4. Click on ‘Challenge’ (to the left of the screen). Complete the Geography
Challenge by placing people and animals in their respective habitats.
5. Click on ‘Ancient China’ (to the left of the screen). You should be on the home
page of this site. Your next stop is ‘Time’.
6. Click on ‘Time’ and then on the mask. Read the ‘Time’ page.
A. Name the three early dynasties in the order of their appearance?
B. Who united the warring states into an empire?
7. Click on ‘Story’
A. What did the world look like in the beginning?
B. How did Pan Gu keep the sky and earth from crashing together?
C. What happened to Pan Gu’s eyes when he died?
D. What did the ticks on his body become?
8. Click on ‘Explore’
A. When was the ‘fast potter’s wheel invented?
B. What is the difference in time between beginning of the Xia Dynasty and
the end of the Zhou Dynasty?
C. What is the difference in time between when Qin Shi Huangdi became
emperor and when the last emperor of China, Emperor Puyi, gained the
throne?
9. Click on ‘Ancient China’ (to the left of the screen). You should be on the home
page of this site. Your next stop is ‘Writing’.
10. Click on ‘Writing’ and then on the picture. Read the ‘Writing’ page.
A. What are ‘logograms?
B. What is a Chinese character?
11. Click on ‘Story’
A. What was the Chinese treatment for malaria in 1899?
B. What did Wang Yirong notice about the ‘dragon bones’ sent to him?
C. What types of animals were these bones really from?
D. What did ancient Chinese kings use the bones with writing on them for?
12. Click on ‘Challenge’ and complete the Symbols Game by matching the picture
with the correct ancient Chinese character.
13. Click on ‘Ancient China’ (to the left of the screen). You should be on the
home page of this site. Your next stop is ‘Tombs and Ancestors’.
14. Click on ‘Tombs and Ancestors’ and then on the mask. Read the ‘Tombs and
Ancestors’ page.
A. How were ancient Chinese tombs like Egyptian Pyramid tombs?
B. What did the ancient Chinese believe about their dead ancestors?
15. Click on ‘Story’
A. What is the problem in the story?
B. What do the people plan on doing to please their ancestors?
C. Why did ancient Chinese inscribe bronze vessels?
16. Click on ‘Explore’. Click on ‘Explore an ancient Chinese tomb’. Describe
what is in each chamber of the tomb.
17. Click on ‘Challenge’ and complete the ‘Furnishing Tombs Challenge’ by
selecting the right combination of objects for a tomb.