Geography and Early China
The two main rivers in China.
What are the Yantze River and the Yellow River
What the Zhou used to establish their dynasty and take over from the Shang.
What is the mandate of heaven?
King that united China and became the first emperor.
Who was Shi Huangdi?
Peasant who became the first emperor of the Han Dyansty.
Who was Liu Bang?
Two farming advancements made during the Han Dynasty that made it easier to dig up the ground.
What are the seed drill and the cast-iron plow?
The three major natural barriers of China.
Gobi Desert
Pacific Ocean
Himalayan Mountains
Greatest teacher in Chinese history.
Who was Confucius?
3 things that Emperor Huangdi standardized to help unify China.
What is money, writing and system of weights and measures?
The official philosophy of China during the Han Dynasty?
What was Confucianism?
When traditional Chinese religions didn't offer them the answers they wanted, many in China turned to this for answers and help.
What is Buddhism?
Perhaps the first dynasty in Chinese history but there is no evidence to prove it.
What is the Xia Dynasty?
Daoism taught that the universe was a balance of this.
What is a balance of opposites?
Building project that Emperor Huangdi hoped would keep invaders out of China.
What is the Great wall of China?
Medical practice invented during the Han Dynasty.
What is acupuncture?
Item that China traded that helped them to become rich.
What is silk?
First Chinese dynasty for which we have proof they existed.
What is The Shang Dynasty?
Legalism taught that all people are this and need this?
What is that all people are bad and they need to be controlled?
What Emperor Huangdi did to the 460 scholars that protested the book burning.
What is he had them buried alive?
Of the 60 million people living in China during the Han Dynasty, this many lived in poverty.
What is 90%?
The trade partner that, because they loved silk so much, on their own helped to make the Chinese rich.
Who was Rome?
Chinese writing has been found on many of these that were used to predict the future.
What are Oracle Bones?
The order of society during the Zhou Dynasty.
What was King, Warriors and Lords, Peasants?
What happened to China following the death of Emperor Huangdi.
Qin Dynasty fell apart leading to the Han Dynasty.
This item was something Emperor Wudi wanted from the west and was willing to trade large amounts for it.
What were horses?
The spread of ideas from one culture to another.
What is cultural diffusion?