Vocabulary
A family member who is no longer living.
What is an ancestor?
The Zhou dynasty lasted a long time because people believed the gods gave kings the right to rule.
How did the Mandate of Heaven affect the Zhou dynasty?
The rivers created ample trade opportunities for China.
What is NOT a way geography affected the lives of people in China?
A belief system that influenced early China by having people begin taking exams for government positions.
What is Confucianism?
What is legalism?
The responsibility of children to respect, obey and care for their parents.
What is filial piety?
This dynasty put a single monetary system in place.
What is the Qin Dynasty?
To keep out invaders.
What is the reason for the Great Wall of China?
Merchants, farmers, artisans, and aristocrats.
What were the social classes in Ancient China?
Worked the land owned by the aristocrats, used part of their crops to pay for rent and taxes, served as soldiers.
What is a farmer?
A person who belongs to the highest class of society.
What is an aristocrat?
A dynasty whose emperor wanted educated people to work in government, so he created schools for civil service.
What is the Han dynasty?
The Huang He and Chiang Jiang.
What are the two river valley civilizations?
Spices, silk, and luxury items.
What were goods traded along the Silk Road?
The only people who could run the government.
What is the role of men in Ancient China?
A heavenly law that gave the Zhou king the power to rule.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
A dynasty that believed in the idea that the use of oracle bones allowed your Gods, spirits and ancestors to guide you.
What is the Shang dynasty?
Mountains and deserts.
What are natural barriers for China?
Raised and educated children, managed the household, and managed finances.
What were roles of women in Ancient China?
A son taking care of his sick mother.
What is an example of filial piety?
A system to place people with the right skills in a job with the government.
What is civil service?
The dynasty that believed in the Mandate of Heaven.
What is the Zhou dynasty?
A river that carries and deposits rich soil when it floods.
What is the Huang He?
Made useful objects, learned skills from their fathers, taught their sons their skills.
What is an artisan?
A belief system that appealed to people dealing with fear.
What is Buddhism?