Confucianism
The ideas of this person are known as Confucianism.
Who is Confucius?
These were the 3 philosiphies.
What is Daoism, Legalism, and Confucianism?
This ocean forms China's eastern boundary.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This dynasty took part in the Silk Road.
What is the Han dynasty?
This dynasty was the first to develop a writing system in China.
What is the Shang?
These were people of high rank.
Who are the lords?
This was the first emperor of the Han dynasty.
Who is Liu Bang?
These people should lead by example, inspiring good behavior in all of his subjects, according to Confucianism.
Who are kings?
This was the most famous Daoist teacher.
Who was Laozi?
This river is often called "China's Sorrow"
What is the Huang He
These people were hired to protect traders from bandits.
Who are armed guards?
China expanded and unified the most in this Dynasty.
What is the Qin?
This Chinese innovation uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of the day
What is a sundial?
This Qin king ordered burnings of all the writings that did not agree with Legalism.
Who is Shi Huangdi?
This class would learn by following the example of their superiors.
What is the lower class?
This was the guiding force of all reality.
What is the Dao?
This harsh desert separates China from its neighbors.
What is the Gobi Desert?
This material was the one of the most famous items transported along the Silk Road.
What is silk?
In this dynasty, under Emperor Wudi, people had to pass tests to get government jobs.
What is the Han?
This was the practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain.
What is acupuncture?
This is the first dynasty in which they stated that kings possed the mandate of heaven.
What is the Zhou dynasty?
These are people that should display high moral values to inspire their families.
Who are fathers?
This is the belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled.
What is Legalism?
This river flows from the mountains of Tibet to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Chiang Jiang or the Yangtze River?
This is a region that traded silver, gold, precious stones, and horses for China's silk.
What is Ancient Rome?
This is the period of Chinese history during which China severely lacked a strong government.
What is the Warring States period?
This was a barrier that linked earlier walls across China's northern frontier.
What is the Great Wall?
This Han emperor took the throne in 140 BC and made Confucianism China's official government philosophy.
Who is Emperor Wudi?
This is what Confucianism is focuses on.
What is morality, family, society, and government
Followers of Legalism disagreed with the moral teachings of this person.
Who is Confucius?
This separates Northern China from Southern China.
What is the Qinling Shandi?
This was a religion that spread from India to China.
What is Buddhism?
Confucius believed that order would return to China if people knew their proper role in society at the end of this dynastic period.
What is the Zhou Dynasty?
This was a soft, light, highly valued fabric.
What is silk?
This emperor wanted to protect the country from invasion and started the Great Wall.
Who is Shi Huangdi?
Confucianism first influenced China during this period.
What is the Zhou period?
This dynasty applied the teachings of Legalism.
What is the Qin dynasty?
This is the wettest region of China.
What is the tropical southeast of China?
These were the three weather dangers that traders faced while traveling on the Silk Road.
What are icy blizzards, desert heat, and blinding sandstorms?
During this Dynasty, peasants became more highly ranked in the social order for their important contribution to society.
What is the Han dynasty?
These were moral values.
What are ethics?
This was buried close to Shi Huangdi's tomb that archaeologists found in 1974.
What are the terra-cotta soldiers?