Geography
Shang Dynasty
Zhou Dynasty
Qin Dynasty
Han Dynasty
100
It is a major river in Northern China.
What is the Huang He (or Yellow River)?
100
The Shang used them to answer questions about the future.
What are oracle bones?
100
The Zhou used this to justify their overthrow of the Shang Dynasty.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
100
This was the Qin Dynasty ruler's way of getting rid of all Confucian ideas?
What is book burning?
100
This is the answer to whether Empress Lu was Liu Bang's only wife.
What is 'no'?
200
What is the major river in the south of China?
What is the Chang Jiang (or Yangtze River)?
200
The Shang surrounded their cities with them for protection, because they were constantly waging war.
What are massive earthen walls?
200
It is a political system in which nobles are granted use of lands that legally belong to the king in return for their loyalty and military service.
What is feudalism?
200
This is the reason the Great Wall of China was built.
What is closing the border gap to prevent invaders?
200
He founded the Han Dynasty.
Who is Liu Bang?
300
This 15,000-foot high tableland is on the southwestern border of China.
What is the Tibetan Plateau?
300
It was central to Chinese society, and, in Ancient China, a person's chief loyalty was to it.
What is the family?
300
This is the name for the chaotic time in the later years of the Zhou Dynasty, during which many nobles fought for power.
What is the "warring states period?"
300
He was the ruler of the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC.
Who is Shi Huangdi?
300
The Han Dynasty ruled for this many years.
What is more than 400?
400
This is the name of the rich yellow silt that Chinese farmers use to improve their farming.
What is loess?
400
The Shang are famous for their incredible craftsmanship of ceremonial vessels made out of this metal.
What is bronze?
400
What kinds of events could be taken as a sign that a ruler has lost the mandate of heaven?
What are disasters such as floods, famines, peasant revolts or invasions?
400
This is a government in which the ruler has unlimited power and uses it randomly when he wants to.
What is an autocracy?
400
Liu Bang did this in 195 B.C.
What is died?
500
These are three environmental challenges in Ancient China.
What is 1. Huang He's flooding 2. geographic isolation (made trade hard) and 3. no natural barriers in North and West.
500
He was the supreme god worshipped by the Shang, although they also believed in many lesser gods.
Who is Shang Di?
500
This is the Dynastic Cycle.
What is the cycle wherein: 1) New Dynasty gains power /claims mandate of heaven 2) establishes peace and prosperity/has mandate of heaven 3) Dynasty declines/corruption, higher taxes 4) Disasters such as floods, famine, peasant revolts, invasions 5) Dynasty seen as having lost mandate of heaven/rebellion justified 6) Dynasty overthrown through rebellion/new dynasty emerges [THEN, RETURN TO STEP 1]
500
The ruler of the Qin dynasty sacrificed this in order to unify China.
What is human freedom?
500
It's the nickname of Liu Bang's great-grandson.
What is "the martial emperor"?
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