What played an important role in the growth of China's civilization?
Geography
In the northeast the climate is what?
cold and dry
What are lords?
People of high rank
What was the Great Wall?
a barrier across China's northern frontier.
What was the most famous trade route?
The silk road
What is a physical barrier that separates China from neighboring countries?
Harsh deserts
how much rain do monsoons bring each year?
250 in
Who is Confucius?
The most influential teacher in Chinese history.
What does Shi Huangdi mean?
first emperor
What is a seismograph?
It measures the strength of an earthquake
What helped Chinese civilization develop?
Dynasties
In the eastern plans of China there is heavy rains
True or False
True
What did Confucianism focus on?
Mortality,family,society,and goverment
What was supposed help unify the country?
Building massive projects
What were the people of the Han period experts at?
Figure painting
China's physical geography made farming possible but what difficult?
travel and communication
In ancient times were weather variations a concern?
Yes
What did Daoists believe?
They believed that people should avoid interfering with nature or each other.
How many scholars did Shi Huangdi bury alive
460
True or False
Art and literature thrived and inventors developed many useful devices because of the Han dynasty
True
How much land does China cover?
4 million square miles
What is the wettest region?
The tropical southeast
What did Confucius want for China?
he wanted China to return to ideas and practices from a time when people knew their proper roles into society.
What political belief did Shi Huangdi follow?
Legalism
What was The Han's biggest acheviment that we use everyday?
paper