Geography
Mountain range separating China from India.
What are the Himalayas?
First dynasty.
What is the Shang?
Belief humans are naturally evil and need strict laws to be controlled.
What is legalism?
Purpose the Great Wall was built.
What is to keep out northern invaders?
Purpose of the Silk Road.
What is trading luxury goods and to improve many different early civilizations, binding east to west?
Desert separating China from Mongolia.
What is the Gobi Desert?
First dynasty to unify all of China.
What is the Qin Dynasty?
Putting the family's and community's needs before your own.
What is Confucianism?
The Great Wall began being built during this dynasty.
What is the Qin?
China and this civilization were the two greatest powers during the Silk Road.
What is the Roman Empire?
1/3 of the population live along this river.
What is the Yangtze River?
Belief that the emperor's right to rule came from the gods.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Living in harmony with the world and nature.
What is Daoism?
When most people think of the Great Wall of China, they are referring to the one built during this dynasty.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
Two major religions spread along the Silk Road.
What is Buddhism and Christianity?
Nicknamed "China's Sorrow" due to its destructive floods.
What is the Huang He River?
This dynasty ended with the Period of the Warring States.
What is the Zhou Dynasty?
Philosophy promoted in the Qin Dynasty.
What is legalism?
A group of people who built the Great Wall.
Who are soldiers/slaves/prisoners?
Disease spread along the Silk Road.
What is Bubonic Plague/Black Death?
This is what the ancient Chinese called their land since they believed they were at the center of the universe.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
Work continued on the Great Wall during this dynasty.
What is the Han/Ming Dynasty?
Philosophy promoted in the Han Dynasty.
What is Confucianism?
The three dynasties the Great Wall of China was mostly built during.
What are the Qin, Han, and Ming Dynasties?
Reason why several merchants traveled in large caravans.
What is to prevent being attacked?