Key terms
What is the definition of loess
Yellow-brown soil
What is the definition of currency
The type of money used by a group or a nation
Why is the yellow river also called "China's sorrow"
Destructive floods would come without warning
What do legalists believe about government
a ruler should establish strict laws and enforce them with harsh punishments
What is the definition of mandate.
An official order to do something.
What is the definition of silk road
an ancient trade route between China and Europe
What is the mandate of heaven
An ancient Chinese philosophical concept that gives emperors the right to rule from heaven. If he does not fulfill his obligations as emperor, then he loses the right to be emperor
Why did Qin bury 10000 terracotta warriors in his tomb with him
to guard him in the afterlife
What is the definition of virtuous
having or showing high moral standards
What is the definition of silk
A valueable cloth, originally made only in china from threads spun by caterpillars called silkworms
What is an example of something that could cause an emperor to be overthrown
Famine, flood, earthquake, disease, invasions,etc
How long is the great wall of china
4500 miles
What is the definition of immortality
The ability to live forever.
What two important factors limited Ancient china's contact with outsiders
1. Long distances
2. Natural barriers
What were the goals of confucius's teachings
1. bring peace
2. refom rulers
3. bring prosperity
4. bring stability
Who was the great wall of china built to keep out
mongolian invaders
What is the definition of paranoid
Feeling that you are being threatened in some way.
Ancient Chinese people were so sure that they lived at the center of the world they called themselves
Middle kingdom
According to taoism, what is the "tao"
the natural order of the univrse; the way things are supposed to be
Han dynasty