Silk Road
What acted as a natural barrier around Inner China, keeping early settlers isolated?
Mountains, Deserts, Extreme Climate
What continent is China a part of?
Asia
The advances in making this metal helped the Han military greatly.
Iron
How many continents & oceans are there in the world?
7 Continents, 5 Oceans
Which dynasty opened the Silk Road?
Han
Where do the Huang He (Yellow River) and Chang Jiang (Yangtze River) begin?
Tibet Qinghai Plateau
This invention greatly simplified writing for the Chinese people.
Paper
What natural events led the Chinese to invent the seismograph?
Earthquakes
Where did the Silk Road end?
Mediterranean Sea
Why was it better to settle in Inner China than Outer China?
Less extreme weather, more fresh water, better farmland, protected by natural barriers.
People in ancient times valued salt because it was used to.....
preserve meat and vegetables
What was the Silk Road?
a network of roads used for trading
The ancient Chinese wanted this prized product made by the Romans.
Glassware
An oasis would be found in....
A desert.
Safety in ancient China increased after this invention.
Seismograph
Which artistic material was invented during the Han dynasty?
Paper
Goods were traded on the Silk Road, but the Silk Road also created this.
Cultural Diffusion
Which physical feature is also known as "the Roof of the World"?
Tibet-Qinghai Plateau
The time in China during the Han Dynasty, when education, literature and art flourished is called...
Golden Age of China
What continents did the Silk Road connect?
Africa, Asia, Europe
For this reason, Silk was the perfect trading product for the ancient Chinese.
It was light and very valuable.
What does Taklimakan stand for?
Once you go in... you don't come out.
This organization of government, which uses a fixed set of rules and conditions, was used by the Han Dynasty.
Bureaucracy
How did the Han's skill in ironwork help the farmers?
strong iron plows helped them plow the soil more easily
Travellers of the Silk Road might have encountered these three hardships.
Bandits, Sandstorms, Lack of Oxygen.
Why is the North China Plain sometimes called the "Land of the Yellow Earth"?
limestone silt (loess) from the Gobi Desert covers the soil
What allowed the Han to expand their dynasty?
their military methods and new weapons
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