Duplicate of Ancient China Test Review

What made silk valuable in the West?

What did the Chinese write on before they invented paper?

Region

How did the Huang He most influence the settlement near its banks?

At the time of the Han dynasty, which people particularly threatened China from the North?

Censor

a large complex organization that functions under a given set of rules and conditions.

How did the natural vegetation of the Northestern Plain affect the lives of ancient settlers?

What happened during the Period of the Warring States?

What new technology MOST helped the Han in warfare?

What was the purpose of building the Great Wall?

the spreading of cultural traits , such as goods and ideas, from one culture to another. etc.

a strong metal alloy made from copper

Why did people in China want horses from Central Asia?

a stream or river that feeds into a larger stream, river, or lake

How do we know the Shang believed in life after death?

Hanfeizi, whose teachings were the basis for Legalism, wrote that rulers should emphasize

Ancient Chinese healers used the techique of acupunture to

What did Hanfeizi say that rulers must do to avoid being overthrown?

A power or law believed to be granted by a god

How did a Shang leader ask advice from an ancestor?

Shang weapons were really strong because they were made from

the Daoist concept of opposing forces

The first emperor to rule a united China, from 221 to 210 BCE...

The dyasty that ruled China from about 206 BCE to 220CE.

Why did many people who were sent to work on the Great wall not return home?

In the later years of the Zhou dynasty, what condition in China led to new philosophies?

How did the Han emperors gradually change the way China was ruled?

What happened after the Qin emperor's death?

The chain pump increased harvests by helping farmers

Honoring of ancestors through rituals, such as offering food to the spirtis of the dead

able to live forever

Under Qin rule, what would happen if a rich person and a poor person committed the same crime?

on of the first Chinese dynasties, ruled from 1700 to 1122 B.C.E.

How is the Gobi Desert different from the Taklimakan Desert?

Which of these would Confucious value most highly?

A Chinese philosophy that emphasizes strict obedience to laws

a large group of family members and friends

Which group most likely had the best life under the Emeror Qin's rule?

Compared with the Qin dynasty, the Han dynasty

Why did the Emperor of Qin order all Confucian books brought to the capital?

a system of government based on land-owners and tenants

Out of all the countries in the world, China has the

a region in the Huang He River valley, where Chinese civilization began

Which Chinese teaching most influenced Qin Shahuangdi's style of rule?

a network of trade routes that stretched for more than four thousand miles across Asia

Daoists taught that people could gain happiness by

Qin Shihuangdi, the first emperor of China, began life as

Which of these discoveries did the Chinese make, more than a thousand years befoer Europe did?

a place, usually in a desert, where water can be found

How did the Silk Road most affect the spread of Buddhism?

What was the legalist view of human nature?

What is one way Daoism influenced China?

Which of these geographical features made governing China as a unified state difficult?

a piece of bone or shell heated and cracked by holy men to seek advice from a king's ancestor

a group of people traveling together

the average weather conditions at a particular place

A Chinese philosophy that emphasizes proper behavior

How did scholars learn that the Shang dynasty really existed?

a line of rulers from about 1045 to 256 BCE

Which later practice in China most shows the influence of Confucian thought?

A person who works for the government