He unified China, built the great wall, gave his name to China, and tried to become immortal by drinking mercury and building a fabulous tomb with 3000 life sized soldiers guarding his tomb.
Who is Emperor Qin?
100
Did Buddhism begin in China? (yes or no)
no
100
Today a couple who are both "only children" can have two children. Also minority groups and farmers can have more than one.
How has the ONE CHILD FAMILY RULE of China been relaxed?
100
The rain is blocked by the Himalaya mountains and prevents rainfall in THIS vast 500,000 sq mile area.
What makes the Gobi Desert dry?
or
Why are there no farms or people living in the Gobi Desert?
100
Info on the Grand Canal
This 1200 mile waterway was built by hand from Hanzhou to Beijing. It was a "highway" for rice from Southern China to the North since the rivers run west and east. One emperor in the Sui dynasty forced 6 million peasants to work on THIS PROJECT and half of them died doing it.
200
The Chinese will begin building a canal larger than the Panama canal "in this country" in Central America in late 2014.
Nicaragua was chosen for which huge civil engineering project.
200
The philosophy humanizing people with education. It calls for peace and harmony and doing right to care people's concentric circles of influence: self, family, country, world
What is Confucianism as written in the Analects?
200
Red and Yellow! look at the flag, but the real reason goes back to the colors the emperors and wealthy used.
What are the favorite colors of the Chinese?
200
This country borders China to the North. They were the invaders using horses and cross bows. At one time they had the largest kingdom ever known to man: the kingdoms of Genghis Kahn and Kublai Kahn .
What is Mongolia?
200
Five of the ancient inventions by the Chinese
What are noodles, printing, gunpowder, seismograph, magnetic compass, kites, wheel barrow, paper money, paper, ink?
300
The Ming Dynasty
The Great Wall of China that is seen today was built during which dynasty?
300
Find "________"on the front of all paper money today. He led the 1949 revolution and ruled until 1976.
Mao Tze Tung
OR
George Washington is to America as Mao Tze Tung is to China.
OR
Who was the leader of the Communist Revolution?
300
A form of potty training used in China today.
What are split pants?
300
The mountain range that separates China and India
What are the Himalayas?
300
The route along which China traded with India and Rome
What is the Silk Road?
400
"Communism with Chinese characteristics"
What is China's one party government called which allows capitalism and free market trade.
400
It is philosophy older than Confucianism. It started the idea of yin / yang, living in the balance of opposite forces like male and female.
What is Taoism?
400
A type of writing which uses images of ideas, instead symbols for sounds to make words like we do.
Chinese calligraphy is based on ideagraphs.
400
The three rivers gorge was built with world wide worry because people had to move. But the world's largest dam has been built and provides much "_______" for Chongching, a city of 20 million people.
What is hydroelectricity?
400
Tangrams were invented in the Tang dynasty.
Name one geometry puzzle "invented" in the Tang dynasty.
500
The Manchus were the last ruling dynasty in China. They ruled the Han as if they were Han.
Which dynastic family defeated the Mongols? (They were from the north too.)
500
It was a carefully guarded secret for thousands of years: how to make this fabric. Cocoons are boiled to unravel a thread to make this Chinese commodity.
From where does silk come? (can't say China)
500
Boys get a better education because......
Boys and men work outside the home and bring money in for the family because they are responsible for paying the bills of their wife and children AND for taking care of their old parents. Raising boys is like having a retirement and insurance plan.
500
Two important rivers flow west to east in China. Can you name one?
What are the Huang He (Yellow River) and Yangtze?
500
It is the name for the walled off area where the Emperor lived in Beijing.