Ch. 3 Study Guide

Question 1

The central bureaucracy of the Qin dynasty was three parts: the ________ division, the _______ division, and the _______

Accepted Answer

Military, Civil, Censorate

Question 2

agency that checked on government officials

Accepted Answer

Censorate

Question 3

The Silk Road reached from the city of Chang'an in China to the city of Rome.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

4,000-mile transportation route stretching from China to Syria

Accepted Answer

Silk Road

Question 5

duty of family members to male head

Accepted Answer

Filial piety

Question 6

Filial ___ refers to the duty of members of the family to defer to the needs and desires of the male head of the family.

Accepted Answer

Piety

Question 7

What religion appeared in the sixth century B.C. that became a rival of Hinduism?

Accepted Answer

Buddhism

Question 8

Who is considered the “Enlightened One?”

Accepted Answer

Buddha

Question 9

Aśoka, considered to be the greatest ruler in the history of India, converted to Hinduism and used Hindu ideals.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 10

Yoga, an important aspect of Hinduism, means …

Accepted Answer

Union

Question 11

Which are the highest mountains in the world?

Accepted Answer

The Himalayas

Question 12

Qin Shihuangdi created a single ____________________ system and constructed a ______________ system.

Accepted Answer

Monetary, road

Question 13

Which Chinese philosophy did the 1st Han emperor adopt, and which one did it replace?

Accepted Answer

Confucian, legalism

Question 14

The Mauryan Empire flourished under Asoka, who did all of the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

convert to Hinduism.

Question 15

In Hindu belief, karma is a force that

Accepted Answer

Determines how a person will be reborn

Question 16

What writing system did Aryans develop?

Accepted Answer

Sanskrit

Question 17

The Cunfucian belief that government jobs be open to all men of superior talent was a part of which country’s history?

Accepted Answer

Chinese

Question 18

The Zhou dynasty lasted for almost 800 years, making it the ________ dynasty in Chinese history.

Accepted Answer

Longest-lasting

Question 19

Qin Shihuangdi's answer to the nomadic aggression in the north was a project known as ______, or known as The Great Wall

Accepted Answer

The Wall of Ten Thousand Li

Question 20

Reincarnation is the Hindu belief that the individual soul …

Accepted Answer

is reborn in a different form.

Question 21

A vast army of terra-cotta ____________________ was discovered in a burial mound in 1974.

Accepted Answer

Soldiers

Question 22

Three major schools of thought about the nature of human beings and the universe emerged in China....

Accepted Answer

Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism

Question 23

Siddhārtha, or Buddha, denied the reality of

Accepted Answer

the material world.

Question 24

The Aryans developed a writing system called Sanskrit to

Accepted Answer

record their religious writings and legends

Question 25

What was the caste system of ancient India?

Accepted Answer

An engrained form of social structure

Question 26

To communicate with the gods, rulers made use of ________ bones

Accepted Answer

Oracle

Question 27

Han Gaozu, or Liu Pang, was a ___________ before becoming Emperor of China

Accepted Answer

Peasant

Question 28

Confucianism encouraged the idea of

Accepted Answer

duty and humanity.

Question 29

On what was the caste system based?

Accepted Answer

Jobs

Question 30

All of the following existed during the Han Empire EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

Gunpowder.

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