Geography
Dynasties
Philosophers
Inventions
General Questions
100
Chinese civilizations developed near these natural sources of protection.
What are river / valleys?
100
This was China's first dynasty.
What was the Shang Dynasty?
100
These three philosophies all had the same goal: the creation of a well-run and peaceful society.
What is Confucianism, Daoism, and legalism?
100
This single road extended from China to the Roman Empire.
What is the Silk Road?
100
This government system, that favored the rich, was created under Han Wudi.
What is the civil service?
200
Due to Zhang Qian's exploration of the West, this factor increased the Chinese economy.
What is trade?
200
This ancient Chinese dynasty ruled China longer than any other dynasty.
What is the Zhou Dynasty?
200
According to this ancient Chinese philosophy, husbands and wives should support each other.
What is Confucianism?
200
This Chinese invention helped sea shipping merchants sail their vessels from one port to another.
What is a rudder?
200
This philosophy has formed the basis of modern-day Chinese laws.
What is legalism?
300
These three seas border China's eastern and southern borders.
What are the Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea?
300
This Chinese philosophy declared that a king's right to rule came from the gods.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
300
This Chinese system of beliefs describes the way a king must rule.
What is Dao?
300
This ancient Chinese invention was used to grind corn and other grains.
What was the waterwheel?
300
This dynasty had a huge impact on China's empire with the creation of the civil service, schools, literature and the arts, new technologies, and new territories conquered while also establishing peace.
What is the Han Dynasty?
400
These two geological substances were highly valued by the Han people.
What is gold and jade?
400
This Chinese philosopher was the founder of Daoism whose name means "the Old Master"?
Who was Laozi?
400
This ancient Chinese philosophical religion spread from India to China.
What is Buddhism?
400
This Chinese invention used new technology for iron making?
What was the farm plow?
400
This period of time made people look for ways to restore order in China.
What is the "Period of the Warring States"?
500
This Chinese river is known as the "Yellow River" and "China's Sorrow".
What is the Huang He River?
500
Wu Wang lead a rebellion against the Shang government for being mean.
What is a cruel tyrant?
500
These two philosophies talk most about improving society?
What is Confucianism and legalism?
500
This long structure was built in the northern region of China to help keep the empire safe from invasion.
What is the Great Wall of China?
500
Harry Potter, though fictional, uses this form of power which many ancient Chinese believed in.
What is magic?
