What three dynastic cycles cover the many centuries of classical China?
What is the Zhou, the Qin, and the Han.
100
China relied heavily on tightly knit ___________ families.
Fill in the blank.
What is patriarchal.
100
What religious philosophy was produced by classical China and arose at roughly the same time as Confucianism, during the waning centuries of the Zhou dynasty?
What is Daoism.
100
What group was beneath the peasantry in Chinese social structure?
What is "mean" people.
100
What was invented during the Han that was a major boon to a system of government that emphasized the bureaucracy?
Hint: We use it A LOT today.
What is paper.
200
Who was the regional ruler that deposed the last Zhou emperor and within 35 years made himself sole ruler of China?
What is Qin Shi Huangdi.
200
What did emperor Wu Ti establish for his bureaucrats?
What is examinations (civil service tests).
200
Who furthered Daoism?
What is Laozi.
200
What were the three main social groups in classical China (from top to bottom)?
What is the landowning aristocracy plus the educated bureaucrats, laboring masses: peasants and urban artisans, and mean people.
200
The spread of _________ from _____, during and after the Han decline, was a notable instance of a cultural diffusion that altered China's religious map and also its artistic styles.
What is Buddhism...India.
300
Shi Huangdi built the _____ _____, extending over 3000 miles, wide enough for chariots to move along its crest.
Fill in the blank.
What is Great Wall.
300
Who was the non-religious leader that devoted his life to teaching and traveled through many parts of China preaching his ideas of political virtue and good government?
What is Confucius, or King Fuzi.
300
What term means "the way of nature?"
What is Dao.
300
Between what regions did food exchange exist?
What is the wheat- and rice-growing regions.
300
What did the Chinese not see as two separate entities?
What is government and society.
400
One peasant leader defeated other opponents and in 202 B.C.E. established the third dynasty of classical China, the ____.
Fill in the blank.
What is Han.
400
What book was Confucian doctrine carefully recorded in?
What is Analects.
400
What provided an important tradition in literature?
Hint: used as a basis for civil service examinations
What is Five Classics.
400
What class did not become the focal point of Chinese society?
What is merchant.
400
What fraction of the total human population has China carried about from the last centuries B.C.E. to the present day?
What is one-fifth.
500
Who invaded and overturned the Han dynasty entirely?
What is a nomadic people called the Huns.
500
What alternate system of political thought sprang up in China during the Qin and early Han periods?
What is Legalism.
500
What social class in China made up about 2 percent of the total population?
What is the land-owning gentry.
500
_________ plows were introduced around 300 B.C.E., which greatly increased productivity.
Fill in the blank.
What is Ox-drawn.
500
Trade in silk and other luxury products generated a network of roads through central Asia known collectively as the ____ ____.