Medicine and Science
Agriculture and Industry
Art
Government
Warfare
100
The ancient Chinese believed illnesses happened when these two forces were out of balance.
What are yin and yang?
100
This invention made it easier to move water from irrigation ditches and canals, to the fields.
What is the chain pump?
100
This was the most important advance in art during the Han dynasty.
What is the invention of paper?
100
This philosophy influenced Han government.
What is Confucianism?
100
All men from age 25 to 60 had to serve two years in this.
What is the army?
200
With this technique, thin needles are inserted in to certain parts of the body to help cure illnesses and more.
What is acupuncture?
200
This invention spared farmers from the burden of carrying heavy loads on their backs or in buckets suspended from poles.
What is the wheelbarrow?
200
Before the invention of paper, the Chinese wrote on these two materials.
What are silk and bamboo?
200
This is the name for the pyramid structure of government organizations.
What is a bureaucracy?
200
This weapon was made of two pieces of wood in the shape of a cross.
What is a crossbow?
300
With this technique, a cone made of powdered leaves and sticks is placed on the skin and burned, in order to promote healing and help reduce pain.
What is moxibustion?
300
The trade of this started during the Han dynasty.
What is silk?
300
This fine handwriting flowed naturally, as if it was inspired by nature.
What is calligraphy?
300
In order to be hired into government jobs, young men had to do this.
What is pass a civil service exam?
300
These were used to send messages from one part of an army to another.
What are kites?
400
This instrument, invented by the Han Chinese, detected earthquakes.
What is the seismograph?
400
This important trade item was used to preserve meat and vegetables.
What is salt?
400
Much like artisans, these people wrote characters with a brush and ink.
Who are scribes?
400
Once civil servants were hired, they were not allowed to do this.
What is serve in their own district?
400
Han armor was made from this type of metal.
What is iron?
500
This material was used by the Han Chinese to make compasses, because it tends to align itself in a north-south direction.
What is lodestone?
500
This is the name for the salt water that the Chinese drilled to gather from 1,000 feet below the Earth's surface.
What is brine?
500
Identify 3 materials used to make paper.
What are 1) silk fibers 2) hemp 3) bamboo 4) straw 5) seaweed
500
Top Han officials lived here.
What is the capital?
500
Because of the use of iron, these weapons could now be made longer.
What are swords?
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