Ancient China
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
concept of opposing forces of nature
What is yin & yang?
Values such as respect for elders, proper behavior, and love of scholarship are part of which philosophy?
What is Confucianism?
Who primarily built the Great Wall of China? (Think of the social structure)
Slaves
The Chinese developed irrigation which helped them to do what?
grow more crops
What was the biggest money making product that only China knew how to make?
What is silk?
a piece of bone or shell heated and cracked by holy men to seek advice from a king’s ancestors
What is an oracle bone?
This philosophy taught that there should be strict laws and enforce them, either with rewards for good behavior or with harsh punishments for bad behavior.
What is Legalism?
Why was the Great Wall built?
What is "to keep out foreign invaders?"
What is the North China Plain?
Which metal is most valued by the ancient Chinese?
What is bronze?
a place, usually in a desert, where water can be found
Who is an oases?
This philosophy taught that people should learn for themselves and that if you had to rule, rule as little as possible.
What is Daoism?
Began the building of the Great Wall.
Who is Emperor Qin?
How did the mountains make governing China difficult before the Qin Dynasty?
The mountains created obstacles and made it difficult to reach, to tax, to fight for, and control in general. Kept people isolated.
Emperor Qin's tomb was found in 1974 and contained what famous discovery?
What is the Terracotta Army?
a power or law believed to be granted by the heavens
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Legalism was based on the teachings of this person.
Who is Hanfeizi?
Known as the "oldest effective telegraph system," by passing messages about enemy movements along the border via smoke or fire, for quick communication, what are these signal towers known as?
What are beacon towers?
Along what river did China's earliest civilizations develop?
Huang He (Yellow River)
What was the first Emperor of China?
Qin Shi Huang, or Emperor Qin
The king owns all the land & gives other people/nobles some of the land in exchange for loyalty, military support, food, and other services was called what?
What is feudalism?
Name the 5 basic relationships in Confucianism.
What is ruler & subject, husband & wife, father & son, older sibling & younger sibling, and friend & friend
The most well preserved part of the Great Wall made of brick that tourists can walk on was made during what dynasty?
What is the Ming Dynasty?
The name is often interpreted as meaning "you go in, but you don't come out" or "place of no return," reflecting its treacherous, arid nature is referring to what largest desert in Ancient China?
What is The Taklimakan Desert?
Name 3 things that were exchanged along the Silk Road.
What are ideas, disease, inventions, people, trade, religion?
Buddhism, Christianity, jade, silk, architecture ideas like the Pagoda, gold items, wine, Pipa, camel, etc.