Warfare and Government
What metal did the Han use for weapons?
What is iron?
One invention that helped the Han water crops.
What is the chain pump?
Two most important industries in China during the Han.
What are silk and salt?
The art of fine handwriting.
What is calligraphy?
A technique used by Chinese healers that involved tiny needles inserted into the body.
What is acupuncture?
Name two weapons the Han made out of iron.
What are iron swords and fish scale armor?
An invention that allowed the Han to prevent the soil from piling in front of the plow.
What is ironwork or strong iron plow?
This made silk production more efficient.
What is a foot powered machine that could wind silk fibers onto a large reel?
Two reasons Han used paper for writing.
What is it was cheaper to produce than silk or bamboo and it could more easily bind together into books?
Discoveries made about how the human body works.
What are listening to a person's heartbeat to determine health, and that blood circulates from the heart?
A key improvement made by the Han concerning the hiring of civil servants.
What is civil servants were hired on ability and knowledge instead of social status?
An invention that allowed heavy loads to be carried longer distances with less effort.
What is the wheelbarrow?
A tool the Han used to dig deep wells.
What are iron-tipped bamboo drills?
A variety (name three) of materials used to make paper.
What are silk fibers, hemp, bamboo, straw, or seaweed?
A technique used to treat long-term diseases such as arthritis.
What is moxibustion?
At each level of this, people direct those who are at the level below them.
What is a bureaucracy?
A long term effect of the chain pump.
What is droughts can be more easily survived, and enough food can be grown to feed families?
A use of salt that made it valuable.
What is to preserve meat and vegetables?
The soupy mixture the materials were boiled into.
What is pulp?
An instrument, invented by the Han, used to detect earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
Two key elements of the civil servant exam.
What is memorize five books, spend several days in tiny rooms taking the exam, and being watched by guards to prevent cheating?
Three difficulties faced by farmers during the Han dynasty.
What are floods and droughts, making their own clothing, feeding families and stocking the shared granaries, building their own homes, and unpaid labor to the government for building projects like canals.
Two locations of salt water or brine.
What is the sea and deep beneath the Earth's surface?
Tools Chinese scribes used.
What are brush, ink, and paper?
An instrument invented by the Han and used to determine direction so the Han could correctly position their temples, graves, and homes for good fortune.
What is the magnetic compass?