Shang kings wrote on these to ask for the gods' advice.
What are oracle bones?
100
China makes this cloth from the cocoons of a moth.
What is silk?
100
The Chinese were the first to make this out of tree bark, hemp and rags.
What is paper?
200
The river was called this because it overflowed killing people and destroying homes
What is "China's Sorrow"?
200
Nobles whose wealth came from the land
What are aristocrats?
200
The Chinese believed that this treatment of placing tiny needles under the skin would cure illnesses.
What is acupuncture?
200
Farmers cut these flat areas (similar to broad steps) into mountain slopes to increase farming area.
What are terraces?
200
This Chinese invention helped to steer ships.
What is a rudder?
300
These high mountains border China to the southwest.
What are the Himalayas?
300
It is made up of appointed officials who are responsible for different areas of government.
What is a bureaucracy?
300
This religion spread along the Silk Road from India to China.
What is Buddhism?
300
Chinese writing included these two types of characters.
What are pictographs and ideographs?
300
This invention helped the Chinese grind grain without using animals.
What is the waterwheel?
400
The vast, cold rocky desert in China
What is the Gobi?
400
A heavenly order that gave the Zhou king the power to rule.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
400
Chinese people honored their departed family members called these
What are ancestors?
400
Qin Shihuangdi built this to keep the Xiongnu out of China.
What is the Great Wall?
400
Han Wudi started these tests to choose workers for government positions.
What are civil service examinations?
500
The amount of land in China that can be farmed
What is 10 percent or one-tenth?
500
This powerful ruler based his rule on Legalism and appointed censors to help control government officials. He even built a terra cotta army to serve him in the afterlife.
Who was Qin Shihuangdi?
500
As a part of this practice, Chinese children had to respect their parents and the desires of the head of the family were honored.
What is filial piety?
500
These two developments helped the Chinese ride horses and use crossbows at the same time.