Key Terms
Dynasty
What are rulers from the same family?
Nomads had advantages on the Silk Road such as resistance to disease and superior weapons.
What is false?
Temples were too wealthy and it weakened respect for family life because monks and nuns couldn't marry.
What were reasons the Tang did not support Buddhism?
Vaccine invented by the Chinese in which scabs were ground into a powder and inhaled through the nose.
What is the smallpox vaccine?
The famous Chinese philosopher that influenced the Tang dynasty and civil service exams.
Who is Confucius?
Yellow River
What is the second longest river in China; Named for yellow clay dust
Traders moved goods like silk and porcelain from China to the Americas on the Silk Road.
What is false? They moved goods to the western Asia and the Mediterranean.
Rebuilt Great Wall, built Grand Canal and rebuilt capital city of Chang'an.
Who was Yangdi?
This dynasty was brought down by Kublai Khan leading to the conquest of China.
What is the Song Dynasty?
This famous Mongol emperor was the grandson of Genghis Khan.
Who was Kublai Khan?
Confucius
Who was a Chinese teacher that believed everyone should have duties and responsibilities?
The Chinese invented the compass, gunpowder and the smallpox vaccine.
What is true?
He was the greatest ruler of the Tang Dynasty.
Who is Tang Taizong?
Kublai Khan gave this name to his dynasty.
What is the Yuan Dynasty?
This massive piece of architecture protected China from northern invaders.
What is the Great Wall of China?
Buddhism
What is a religion that taught the way to end suffering is to overcome your desires?
Throughout its history, China was ruled by many dynasties who elected their officials.
What is false? Officials were family members.
Empress Wu
Who was the only woman in Chinese history to rule on her own?
Navigational tool invented by the Chinese that used magnets to show directions.
What is a compass?
These two key products were heavily traded on the Silk Road.
What are silk and porcelain?
Grand Canal
What is an 1100 mile manmade waterway that connected the Yellow and Yangtze rivers?
Kublai Khan was a Chinese emperor who defeated the Mongols.
What is false? He was a Mongol who defeated the Chinese.
The ideas of Confucius led to this way of hiring government officials.
What were civil service exams?
Combustible powder invented by the Chinese and used in fireworks.
What is gunpowder?
Ideas such as Buddhism and the Black Plague.
What were two non-material things spread along the Silk Road?