Based on written records, this is China's first dynasty.
What is the Shang?
100
People's responsibility to respect and obey their parents.
What is filial piety?
100
The first emperor of the Qin dynasty.
Who is Shihuangdi (Qin Shihuangdi)?
100
This religion was most successful in spreading across the Silk Road from India to China.
What is Buddhism?
100
From about 400 B.C. to 200 B.C., strong rulers of local states warred against each other. This period was known as the Period of this.
What is the Warring States?
200
The Zhou's belief that the Chinese king's right to rule came from the gods.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
200
This philosophy taught the importance of nature.
What is Daoism?
200
Two major inventions that occurred during the Han Dynasty.
What are paper, waterwheels, wheelbarrow, iron drill, cast-iron plow, rudders, sails, and silk manufacturing?
200
Because of his desire for this, Han Wudi encouraged trade between China and western regions.
What were horses?
200
China's two major rivers.
What are the Huang He (Yellow River) and Chang Jiang (Yangtze)?
300
The Shang were famous for their work with this material.
What is bronze?
300
The three main philosophies in China between 500 B.C. and 200 B.C.
What are Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism?
300
The main reason that literature and arts blossomed in the Han Dynasty.
What was a time of peace?
300
The Silk Road was approximately this long.
What is over 4,000 miles?
300
The Huang He is known as China's sorrow for this reason.
It often floods, killing people and bringing sorrow.
400
The period of time that the Zhou ruled over China.
What is over 800 years?
400
Two traditional roles for men and two roles for women in early China.
What were growing crops, attending school, running government, and fighting wars? (Men)
What were raising children, educating children, managing the house, managing family finances? (Women)
400
Two things that Shihuangdi did to unify China.
Who were creating a currency, simplifying writing, and starting building projects?
400
Three factors that made the Silk Road dangerous.
What were the distance, rough terrain, and bandits?
400
Three types of geographical features that kept China isolated and protected.
What are rivers, mountains (shans), deserts?
500
The three leadership roles that the Shang king served in.
What are political, religious, and military roles?
500
The four social classes in early China from top to bottom.
What are aristocrats, farmers, artisans, and merchants?
500
Two reasons why the Han dynasty collapsed.
What are greedy aristocrats taking over land, weak and dishonest emperors, angry farmers rose up, civil war, and rebels destroying their capital?
500
Besides goods/materials, the Silk Road served as a way to spread and transport these three concepts.
What are knowledge, culture, and religions?
500
This dynasty is rumored to be China's first dynasty, even before the Shang.