Ancient Beliefs
This philosophy believes people are naturally bad and need strict laws to be good.
What is legalism?
The ruling family that is in power for many years.
What is a dynasty?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The Shang Dynasty is known for developing this type of metalworking.
What is bronze metalworking?
This major trade route connected China with Europe and the Middle East.
What is the Silk Road?
The balance of forces in Daoism is known as this symbol.
What is Yin and Yang?
The belief that a dynasty has a god-given right to rule.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
The two most important rivers in Ancient China.
What are the Yellow River and the Yangtze River?
Han rulers selected government officials based on this instead of family lineage.
What is merit?
Besides goods like silk and jade, this non-material thing was also exchanged along the Silk Road, influencing many cultures.
What are ideas?
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What are diseases?
Confucius taught that society could be fixed if people behaved this way.
Moral and virtuous. (Respecting elders, honoring your family, wives respecting husbands, students respecting teachers, etc.)
The Zhou Dynasty used this system where lords governed their own lands but owed loyalty to the ruler.
What is feudalism?
This major desert in China is known for its harsh climate and was a barrier to trade and invasion.
What is the Gobi Desert?
This famous archaeological discovery includes thousands of life-sized soldier statues buried with China's first emperor.
What are the Terracotta Warriors?
Three materials that were traded along the silk road.
What are jade, silk, spices, pottery, paper, etc.?
The book containing Confucius's teachings.
What is The Analects?
The Qin Dynasty fell mainly because of this.
What is legalism?
The Great Wall of China was built to protect against invaders from this direction.
What is the north?
Shi Huangdi unified China by standardizing these three things.
What are language, transportation, and coins?
One major effect of the Silk Road on China under the Han Dynasty.
What is increased wealth for merchants?
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What is increased trade?
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What is the spread of goods, ideas, and diseases?
This philosophy focuses on simplicity, compassion, and humility.
What is Daoism?
The Zhou Dynasty fell because these powerful local rulers stopped obeying the emperor.
Who are the warlords / feudal lords?
This river is sometimes called "The River of Tears" because it would flood and spread the loess across the land.
The Yellow River
The Han Dynasty is famous for inventing these three things.
What are the seismometer, paper, and acupuncture?