Creating an Empire
Standardizing the Culture
Protecting the Northern Border
Ending Opposition
The Emperor's Death and the End of the Qin dynasty
100
The empire that the Qin took over.
What is the Zhou?
100
This is what standardize means.
What is to make the same?
100
To protect the northern border from invaders, the Emperor of Qin did this.
What is ordered a long wall to be built.
100
The changes made by the Emperor of Qin were very unpopular with these people.
Who are Confucian scholars?
100
The emperor was afraid of this.
What is dying?
200
Emperor Qin Shihuangdi's name as a prince was this.
What is Prince Zheng?
200
The emperor set new, strict laws. This is one of them mentioned in the textbook.
What is widows could not remarry and/or government officials were punished if something went wrong under their supervision?
200
Construction of the first wall took about this long. Remember, later Chinese rulers added to the original wall.
What is 10 years?
200
This is was Qin Shihuangdi did with Confucianists who opposed him.
What is executed them?
200
This is why some of the workers of the emperor's tomb were killed and buried in it.
What is so that robbers wouldn't know about the tomb and its treasures?
300
As emperor, Qin Shihuangdi was influenced by this Chinese philosophy.
What is Legalism?
300
The emperor's laws were based on this belief.
What is Legalism?
300
It took a workforce of about this many to work on the Great Wall.
What is 300,000?
300
A Confucian scholar at a banquet criticized the emperor's ways. This person suggested to Qin Shihuangdi that this was causing trouble and had to be stopped.
Who is Li Sui/the trusted advisor?
300
In 1974, the tomb was discovered. In it were more than 6,000 life-size figures made of this clay.
What is terra-cotta?
400
He replaced the old system of feudalism by doing this.
What is controlling it personally by appointing officials to govern each district.
400
This is why the emperor standardized money, weights, and measures.
What is to make it easier to trade?
400
Many men died while building the wall and are buried here.
What is in the wall?
400
This is how the Emperor of Qin stopped others from learning about Confucianism.
What is burning all books about it.
400
This dynasty was the next to rule after the Qin.
What is the Han?
500
When he felt others were plotting against him, he did this.
What is to have them killed or exiled?
500
Along with standardizing money, weights, and measures, the emperor also simplified this system.
What is the writing system?
500
The wall was very effective at stopping these.
What are invasions?
500
This is what happened to those that criticized the government.
What is execution?
500
This was the leader of the Han dynasty in 206 B.C.E.
Who is Liu Bang?
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