Dynasties
A line of rulers who belong to the same family.
What is a dynasty?
Priest during the Shang dynasty read the cracking patterns of ______ ______ to predict the future.
What is oracle bones?
These people are at the bottom of social pyramid or ladder during the Shang dynasty.
Who are POW?
Qin Shi Huang started this to keep Mongol invaders out of China.
What is the Great Wall of China?
During the Shang dynasty, towns were given to relatives of the king and ______.
Nobles
Under this dynasty China was unified and ruled by the first emperor.
What is the Qin dynasty?
This religion deals with respect for family members and that leaders should rule by example.
What is Confucianism?
Gave government jobs to educated people rather just to nobles.
Who is Wudi ?
What did craftworkers invent during the Han dynasty?
paper- pounding bark of mulberry trees.
This ruler established uniform system of law, weights and measures and writing throughout China.
Who is Qin Shi Huang?
This dynasty was responsible for Confucianism ideas accepted among its people.
What is the Han dynasty?
The Shang dynasty believed in many or one god?
They believed in many different gods. They believed gods controlled nature.
Shihuangdi split the empire into ____ provinces or political divisions of land.
36 provinces
The Shang dynasty used these to tell the future.
What are oracle bones?
The first calendar based on the phases of the moon was invented during this dynasty.
What is the Shang dynasty?
The wife of a king who led troops to war and ruled her own town.
What is Fu Hao?
Under Confucianism, each emperor received a right to rule from the gods that was called ………..?
Mandate of Heaven?
Very good students were sent here.
The Grand School
After the Qin dynasty, this Han ruler went back to the ways of Confucius.
Who is Wu Di?
List the social pyramid of the Shang dynasty.
King, nobles, craftworkers, farmers, POW
This is the first dynasty with clear evidence of its existence.
What is the Shang dynasty?
How are the Mandate of Heaven and the Shang Dynasty's religious beliefs similar?
The Mandate of Heaven and Shang's dynasty believe that the gods spoke to kings.
What means did Emperor Shihuangdi use to unify and strengthen the empire?
Centralized government, standardized writing and money, military power.
Remarkable science achievement during the Han Dynasty.
What is the seismograph?
This is the reason that many Chinese ideas did not reach the west for many centuries.
What is the fact that China has many natural barriers including the ocean, mountains, and deserts?