Duplicate of Duplicate of Ancient China Test Review

A person who works for the government

a large group of family members and friends

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

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

A power or law believed to be granted by a god

What made silk valuable in the West?

Censor

Which of these would Confucious value most highly?

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

Why did people in China want horses from Central Asia?

How did scholars learn that the Shang dynasty really existed?

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

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

the Daoist concept of opposing forces

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

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

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

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

What happened during the Period of the Warring States?

How did a Shang leader ask advice from an ancestor?

Ancient Chinese healers used the techique of acupunture to

able to live forever

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

Daoists taught that people could gain happiness by

A Chinese philosophy that emphasizes strict obedience to laws

A Chinese philosophy that emphasizes proper behavior

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

the average weather conditions at a particular place

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

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

a system of government based on land-owners and tenants

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

What was the legalist view of human nature?

Region

How is the Gobi Desert different from the Taklimakan Desert?

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

a strong metal alloy made from copper

What did the Chinese write on before they invented paper?

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

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

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

What happened after the Qin emperor's death?

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

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

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

Compared with the Qin dynasty, the Han dynasty

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

The chain pump increased harvests by helping farmers

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

What was the purpose of building the Great Wall?

What is one way Daoism influenced China?

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

Shang weapons were really strong because they were made from

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

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

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

a line of rulers from about 1045 to 256 BCE

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

What new technology MOST helped the Han in warfare?

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

a group of people traveling together

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