This green stone has been found by archeologists in China and dates to the Neolithic period. It is seen as a stone of virtue in Chinese culture.
What is jade?
100
This is the creator in Chinese mythology?
Who is Pangu?
100
This is the capital of the Western Zhou.
Who is King Wu?
100
This is the number of years the Han rules.
What is 400 years?
100
Buddhism was brought to China via the_________.
What is the Silk Road?
200
This is the name of an archeological site that was discovered in 1953.
What is Banpo?
200
This is where the first types of writing are found in Chinese culture.
What are oracle bones?
200
These texts make up some of the five classics and are three of the books written by the Zhou.
What are the Book of Documents, The Book of Changes, and the Book of Songs?
200
The Han was a time of ____________.
What is prosperity, technological/scientific innovation?
200
This is a symbol for Buddhism that represents how beautiful things can grow out of the ordinary.
What is the lotus flower?
300
Name 3 differences between Yangshao and Longshan pottery.
What are......
- Yangshao- painted white, black, and red
- figures of animal, humans and geometric designs
Longshan- very high level of pottery
- use of potter's wheel
- black egg shell
300
This is the first known city in China.
What is Erlitou?
300
Name and explain the system that structured Zhou society?
What is the feudal system? It is a system that places lords (who control the land) responsible to the kings. The lords give peasants land to farm and take a share of the profits.
300
This is what was required of scholars for the Civil Service exam.
What was memorizing (word for word) the text of Mancius, the Five Classics and the Analects?
300
These are the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism.
What is
1) Life is filled with suffering
2) Suffering is caused by a love of material things
3) suffering can end
4) release from suffering comes from leading a disciplined and moral life and by meditating
400
These are the dates for the Neolithic period.
What is 7000 BCE until 1750 BCE?
400
These are some of the spirits and things that are sacred to the Shang.
What are rocks, trees, streams, mountains (nature), dragons, and the number 9.
400
This is the number of terracotta warriors that have been uncovered (give within 500).
What is 8000?
400
This is the path of the Silk Road.
Also give a few reasons (3) for its importance.
What is from Persia to Chang'an?
- brought new products/exchange to China
- increased wealth of merchants
-Chang'an became a center of commerce/government
400
Name 3 reasons why Buddhism and Confucianism conflict.
What is
- looking inward to a state of nothingness (B) vs. social harmony in the here and now (C)
- spirits to paradise (B) vs. seizing to exist (C)
- celibacy for monks (B) vs. family/children/love (C)
- tonsure (shaving of head) (B) vs. body in natural state (C)
- equal (B) vs. ranked (C)
500
Explain how the Yellow River got its name using/explaining another key term.
What is the high content of silt which gives it its yellow-brownish color (soil called loess). The soil erodes into the river.
500
Explain the significance of the number 9 in Chinese culture.
What is lucky? Because the number 9 is the largest single digit that can be divided into 3 equal parts.
500
Explain a few reasons (give 3) why Shi Huangdi began to loose the mandate of heaven.
What is the disappearance of his expedition?
What are the death threats?
What is a large meteorite?
500
This is the stratification of the caste system.
What is
Brahmins (priests)
Kshatriyas (warriors/rulers)
Vaisyas (skilled traders/merchants)
Sudras (unskilled workers)
Pariah/Untouchables- outcasts