A 4,000 mile-long network of routes that stretched westward from China across Asia’s deserts and mountain ranges, through the Middle East, until it reached the Mediterranean
Sea
What is the Silk Road?
100
He took the throne in 140 BC, he wanted to create a stronger central government, so he took land from the lords, raised taxes, and placed the supply of grain under the control of the government
Who is Wudi?
100
Poetry that features short lines of a verse that could be sung
What was the shi style poetry?
100
These people manufactured iron swords and armor that made the army more powerful.
What did the ironworkers manufacture?
100
This philosophy was used to describe the ideas of Buddhism.
What is Daoism?
200
A soft, light, highly valued fabric
What is silk?
200
The first emperor of the Han Dynasty, and the peasant who became an emperor
Who is Liu Bang?
200
A Han invention that was made by grinding plant fibers into a paste and was then dried into sheets.
What is paper?
200
These people carved towering statues of Buddha into mountain walls.
What did the artists carve?
200
These people manufactured iron swords and armor that made the army more powerful.
What did the ironworkers manufacture?
300
The spread of ideas, goods, and technology from one culture to another.
What is diffusion?
300
Creator of Buddhism
Who is Buddha?
300
A device that measures the strength of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
300
They had trouble explaining their religion to the Chinese.
Who are Indian Buddhists?
300
A style of painting that includes portraits of people
What was figure painting?
400
This uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day.
What is sundial?
400
Creator of Confucianism
Who is Confucious?
400
The philosophy which Liu Bang believed in
What is Taoism?
400
The material in which the making was a secret only known to the Chinese. Revealing the secret was punishable by death.
What is silk?
400
These people combined the prose and poetry to create long works of literature
Who were the fu style poets?
500
This was a Han innovation which improved medicine.
What is acupuncture?
500
A historian who wrote a complete history of all the dynasties through the early Han, and his format and style became the model for later historical writings.
Who is Sima Qian?
500
The philosophy which Wudi believed in
What is Confucianism?
500
This promise Buddhism gave the Chinese was the main reason they embraced the religion.
What is rebirth and relief from suffering?
500
These two inventions were significant Han inventions for farmers