Ancient China REVIEW

Question 1

Who was the most famous Daoist?

Accepted Answer

Laozi

Question 2

What is a sundial?

Accepted Answer

tells the time of day

Question 3

What is diffusion?

Accepted Answer

The spread of ideas from on culture to another

Question 4

What idea stressed living in harmony with the guiding force of all reality?

Accepted Answer

Daoism

Question 5

Select the word that doesn't belong.

Accepted Answer

Gobi Desert

Question 6

Ordered book burnings and the burying of live scholars

Accepted Answer

Shi Huangdi

Question 7

Which dynasty came first?

Accepted Answer

Xia Dynasty

Question 8

The shortest dynasty, the Qin lasted for about ________________ years.

Accepted Answer

15 yrs

Question 9

The Han dynasty rose to power after the _______ dynasty collapsed.

Accepted Answer

Qin

Question 10

What are ethics?

Accepted Answer

Moral values

Question 11

Built by the Qin to stop invaders from the north

Accepted Answer

Great Wall

Question 12

Select the word that doesn't belong.

Accepted Answer

turtleshell

Question 13

Revealing the secrets of making silk was punishable by DEATH.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

The Warring States period ended when the _____________ took over.

Accepted Answer

Qin

Question 15

What is the best explanation for why the Chinese kept their silk-making methods a secret?

Accepted Answer

so they can have all of the profits it brought

Question 16

Which dynasty came second?

Accepted Answer

Shang Dynasty

Question 17

What is a seismograph?

Accepted Answer

measures earthquake size

Question 18

What continent is China on?

Accepted Answer

Asia

Question 19

The ______________ cuts through central China and flows from the mountains of Tibet to the Pacific Ocean.

Accepted Answer

Chang Jiang

Question 20

What is the practice of inserting needles in the skin to cure diseases?

Accepted Answer

acupuncture

Question 21

The _________, or Yellow River, stretches for nearly 3,000 miles across northern China.

Accepted Answer

Huang He

Question 22

The Qin and Shi Huangdi followed __________________________ political beliefs.

Accepted Answer

Legalist

Question 23

What is the Mandate of Heaven?

Accepted Answer

Heaven gave kings their power to rule

Question 24

Means "first emperor"

Accepted Answer

Shi Huangdi

Question 25

True or False: Shi Huangdi was right to fear for his life...there were several murder attempts.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

Who believed that moral values needed to be taught by families?

Accepted Answer

Confucius

Question 27

He was a teacher and philosopher who wanted to restore family order and social harmony.

Accepted Answer

Confucius

Question 28

In 1974, near Xi'an, archaeologists made an amazing discovery......

Accepted Answer

the terra-cotta soldiers

Question 29

Under what emperor did Confucianism become China's official government policy?

Accepted Answer

Wudi

Question 30

What Dynasty lasted longer than any other in Chinese History?

Accepted Answer

Zhou

Question 31

Select the word that doesn't belong.

Accepted Answer

Jade

Question 32

How was silk made in ancient China?

Accepted Answer

used the cocoons of silk worms

Question 33

What was the most famous trade route of ancient China?

Accepted Answer

Silk Road

Question 34

A prediction.

Accepted Answer

oracle

Question 35

One of the physical barriers that separates China from its neighbors is a harsh desert called the ____________.

Accepted Answer

Gobi Desert

Question 36

The Qin succeeded in _____________________ China.

Accepted Answer

unifying

Question 37

What belief stated that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled?

Accepted Answer

Legalism

Question 38

Who was born a peasant and then became emperor after his army won control of China?

Accepted Answer

Liu Bang

Question 39

According to this section, in China, a lord was a what?

Accepted Answer

A high ranking Individual in society

Question 40

A green gemstone.

Accepted Answer

Jade

Question 41

Who was at the bottom of China's social order?

Accepted Answer

Farmers

Question 42

True or False: Shi Huangdi was liked by most people because he reunified China.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 43

Where did the Silk road begin and end?

Accepted Answer

Central China to the Mediterranean Sea

Question 44

Advances in iron helped create what that helped farmers?

Accepted Answer

Plow, Wheelbarrow

Question 45

What appealed to millions of peasants because it promised rebirth and relief from suffering?

Accepted Answer

Buddhism

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