Lesson 1
Which landform separates China from its neighbors in the north?
The Gobi Desert
Who was most influential teacher in Chinese history?
Confucius
The Qin king who unified China
Shi Huangdi
sundial
a soft, light, highly valued fabric
silk
The Shang were the first people in China to develop what kind of system?
A writing system
A person with a small farm.
Peasant
True or False?
The Qin built the first sections of the Great Wall.
False
The first section was built previously in the 600s BC.The Qin connected the earlier pieces to form the long unbroken structure.
A device that measures the strength of an earthquake.
seismograph
4,000 mile-long trade route
The Silk Road
A hard gemstone used to make jewelry and other objects.
Jade
A person of high rank
Lord
Correct or incorrect
The Qin Dynasty was bad for China.
That is incorrect. The dynasty strengthened and unified China. (The ruler was harsh and punished its people, but he did unify China into one country. He also made money and writing the same, and created many building projects.)
True or False?
Peasants had a higher rank during the Han dynasty.
True
They were higher in the social class, but they were still poor.
the spread of ideas from one culture to another
diffusion
What ocean borders China?
Pacific Ocean
The most famous Daoist teacher
Laozi
What kind of army did Shi Huangdi create and bury to protect him in the afterlife?
Terracotta army
During the Han dynasty, Chinese painters became experts at
Painting figures
Fill in the blank.
The decline of the Han government _________
the spread of Buddhism. (helped/slowed)
Helped
What two rivers did Chinese civilization develop around?
Huang He (Yellow) and Chang Juang (Yangzi) Rivers
True or False
Land ownership was an important part of Zhou politics.
True
True or False?
Liu Bang created roads, The Great Wall, and standardized money and writing.
False
The Qin leader
Shi Huangdi did those things.
Which one is a type of combined prose and poetry?
shi or fu?
Fu
Fu is a combined prose and poetry.
Shi featured short lines that could be sung.
The history of Chinese culture is called
The Shiji
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