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Let's see how well we understand Ancient China!
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1
What is Daoism?
A Chinese philosophy that promotes fighting
A Chinese philosophy that promotes a peaceful society.
A Chinese philosophy that promotes religion
A Chinese philosophy that promotes trading
2
The Chinese had three social classes. They were….
Landowning aristocrats, peasant farmers, and merchants.
None of the following are correct
Landowning aristocrats, peasant farmers, and missionaries
Landowning aristocrats, rich farmers, and merchants.
3
The Yellow River is also known by this name…
Yangtze River
Hing Hang River
Huang He River
Zhou He River
4
A network of trade routes that stretched 4,000 miles from western China to southwest Asia is...
The Silk Road
The Spice Road
The Gobi Pass
The Himalayan Roads
5
Chinese civilization formed around...
Rice Farming
Oracle bones
Ancestor worship and belief in heaven
The Yellow and Yangtze Rivers
6
Government must be led by qualified leaders or citizens will lack character is a definition of
Confucianism
Legalism
Daoism
Taoism
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Why were the rivers important to farmers?
Irrigation
Animals
Rich soil
A and B are correct
8
Some of the questions on the civil service examination were about
mathematics
poetry
science
business
9
The Chinese invented...
All the above are correct
Silk
Paper
Compass
10
Whom did the earliest emperors of China choose to help them govern?
aristocrats
foreigners
priests
scholars
11
The Huang He River is also known as the...
Gobi River
Yellow River
Nile River
Tibet River
12
This lower class of people were called what?
Warlords
Aristocrats
Farmers
Libertarians
13
What does the term dynasty mean?
A set of rulers from different families
A religious group of people like Monks
A set of rulers from the same family
The lowest class of people in China
14
In a meritocracy, selection of officials was based on
birth
test scores
popular vote
wealth
15
Why is the Yellow River called the Yellow River?
Due to sediment in the river that looks yellow
The Yellow River was given its name by the ruler of the Han.
Monsoons pull in yellow water from the Yellow Sea
Due to the pollution from the Silk Road
16
Why was the Great Wall of China built?
To keep the Chinese people in their cities
To keep missionaries out of the country
To make Europeans jealous of China's power
To keep invaders out
17
To people who believed in the Mandate of Heaven, when was it all right to overthrow an emperor?
when he ruled badly and did not take care of lower classes
when citizens wanted a change
never at any time
when he became unpopular
18
Which dynasty first introduced civil service examinations?
Yuan
Han
Tang
Song
19
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
A group of rulers from the same royal family
When the Chinese people accepted the Christian faith
When a king was chosen by a heavenly order
Rules handed down by the Chinese rulers
20
What type of metal in Ancient China and improved their way of life?
Bronze
Titanium
Gold
Silver
21
Which of these was a natural barrier in Ancient China?
Indian Ocean
Gobia Desert
Rocky Mountains
Himalayan Mountains
22
Ancient China was located in...
Africa
Central America
Europe
Asia
23
According to Confucius, rulers had a duty to
treat all people equally.
ask everybody's opinion.
expand the empire.
be kind to their subjects.
24
Some shipments were transported by ship, but most were sent down the...
Canal
Sea
Silk Road
River
25
Suppose four Chinese emperors are in the same dynasty. Which statement must be true about them?
They were born in the same region
They are members of the same family.
They use the same style of government.
They belong to the same political party.
26
One weakness of China’s civil service system was that it created a bureaucracy that valued
tradition more than progress.
freedom more than loyalty.
wealth more than talent.
idleness more than effort.
27
Whom did the emperor Kublai Khan trust most to hold government jobs?
monks, because they were religious
foreigners, because he was a foreigner
scholars, because they were educated
soldiers, because they could keep order
28
How did the lives of some people from the lower classes change under the Song dynasty?
They gained an opportunity to become government officials.
They stopped being required to serve in the military.
They were forbidden to celebrate popular holidays.
They began having to do forced labor building canals.
29
How does a ruler lose their Mandate of Heaven?
None of these answers are correct
When he doesn't keep the Gods happy
When he keeps the Gods happy
When his army loses a battle
30
The Taoism philosophy states...
To not remove an emperor even if they are unjust
The government must be led by good and powerful leaders
Strict laws are needed to keep citizens in line
Not to be concerned with matters out of your control.
