How did Zhou, a frontier state, most effect the Shang dynasty?

Rebels from Zhou overthrew the king

Why did fewer people settle in Outer China than Inner China?

The climate was more extreme in Outer China

What made silk valuable in the West?

The Chinese were the only ones who knew how to make it

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

Travelers carried Buddhist beliefs from India to China.

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

The two would suffer the same punishment

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

They moved from Legalism to Confucian ideals

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

By fertilizing the soil, it attracted communities of farmers

What three natural barriers, shown on the map, helped protect Inner China from invasion?

Himalaya Mountains, Gobi Desert, Taklimakan Desert

What led archeologists to conclude that the Shang believed in life after death?

finding food and weapons buried with the kings

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China Study Guide 19-20

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1
What was the Legalist view of human behavior?
People are motivated by love.
People are naturally curious.
People want to do what is right.
People are basically selfish.
2
What showed that Confucianism became popular with rulers in China?
New inventions
Exams for civil servants
Land given to peasants
Trade with Europe
3
How did Zhou, a frontier state, most effect the Shang dynasty?
Traverlers through Zhoupromoted foreign trade
Warriors from ZHou led the royal army
Rebels from Zhou overthrew the king
Jade mines in Zhou made the king wealthy
4
Which of these men would most likely be hired for the Han bureaucracy?
one who inherited a lot of money
one who was born in the capital
one who had an important family
one who did well on the exam
5
According to belief the Mandate of Heaven, earthquakes and floods might be signs that
the natural world ignored humans
the king did not rule well
the end of the world was near
the people did not obey the laws
6
Why did fewer people settle in Outer China than Inner China?
The climate was more extreme in Outer China
The invasions drove farmers away in Inner China
The roads were more dangerous in Inner China
The land was in smaller estates in Outer China
7
What was the Mandate of Heaven
It was your destiny to rule
It required people to take exams
It favoured good rulers
It punished bad rulers
8
Hanfeizi, whose teachings were the basis for Legalism, wrote that rulers should focus on
honesty and trust.
scholarship and ideas.
rewards and punishments.
trade and manufacturing.
9
What made silk valuable in the West?
The Romans wanted to use it to praise
The Syrians thought wool was too itchy
The Chinese were the only ones who knew how to make it
The Indians found cotton to be too expensive
10
What is the yellow-brown soil that enabled the Huang River Valley to become fertile?
natron
silt
loess
natron
11
How did the Silk Road most affect the spread of Buddhism?
Buddha helped people to seek enlightenment in the desert.
Chinese philosophers wrote Buddhist texts to sell.
Dangers on the road supported the Buddhist idea, life is bad
Travelers carried Buddhist beliefs from India to China.
12
What new technology most helped the Han in warfare?
steam-powered riverboats
advances in working iron
invention of the wheel
improvements in gun powder
13
What is a system of beliefs and values?
philosophy
civil servent
district
feudalism
14
What did Confucius value the most?
Respect
Power
Freedom
Balance
15
Under Qin rule, what would happen if a rich person and a poor person commited the same crime?
The 2 would have to exchange places
The rich person would pay a higher fine
The two would suffer the same punishment
Only the poor person would be punished
16
What did Shi Huangdi do to laws, money, writing and weights and measurements?
He standardized them
He set up schools where they were taught
He let officials change them to meet local needs
He took ideas about them from other countries
17
Daoists taught that people could gain happiness by
Living in harmony with nature
Reading the ancient texts
Working hard to get rich
Serving in government jobs
18
Traveling along the Silk Road from Chang’an and going to Persia, what direction am I traveling?
East
South
North
West
19
Who was the founder of the Qin dynasty and China's first emperor?
Qin SHi Huangd
Laozi
Li Siu
Confucius
20
How did the Han emperors gradually change the way China was ruled?
They returned most power to local nobles
They punished people who tried to spread Daoist beliefs
They put more emphasis on family connections
They moved from Legalism to Confucian ideals
21
What was the purpose of building the Great Wall of China?
to reward followers with land
to provide employment
to keep invaders out
topunish critics of the emperor
22
What was the most important reason why traders formed long caravans to cross the desert?
to lift heavy goods
to learn the route
to protect one another
to prevent sandstorms
23
How did the Huang He most influence settlement near its banks?
By fertilizing the soil, it attracted communities of farmers
Swarming with fish, it led to the growth of fishing villages
By carring boats of raiders, it drove households away
By flooding dangerously, it kept people at a distance
24
What three natural barriers, shown on the map, helped protect Inner China from invasion?
North China Plain, Himalaya Mountains, Gobi Desert
Himalaya Mountains, Gobi Desert, Taklimakan Desert
Himalaya Mountains, Tibet-Qinghai Plateau, Taklimakan Desert
North China Plain, South China Sea, Yellow River
25
What led archeologists to conclude that the Shang believed in life after death?
seeing pots used for ceremonies in the temples
finding food and weapons buried with the kings
studying the position in which bodies were laid out
figuring out the characters carved into bones

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