Shang artisans relied on these two materials to make things like jewelry and weapons.
What is jade and bronze?
100
The Zhou dynasty followed the ______ dynasty.
What is the Shang dynasty?
100
Confucius would have most valued which of the following:
Riches, Respect, Freedom, Creativity.
What is respect?
100
In a chart entitled "Yin and Yang," "pleasure" would be paired with:
Reward, Afterlife, Pain, Enjoyment.
What is pain?
200
These people had the lowest social status in the Shang dynasty.
Who are the (grain) farmers?
200
Archaeologists concluded that the Shang believed in an afterlife because they found these things buried with their kings.
What are food, weapons, servants, etc.?
200
This condition lead to new philosophies in the later years of the Zhou dynasty.
Wealth, Disorder, Feudalism, or Democracy.
What is disorder?
200
This later practice in China most shows the influence of Confucian thought:
New inventions
Trade with Europe
Land given to peasants
Exams for civil servants
What are exams for civil servants?
200
Legalists believe this is true about human nature.
What is that people are basically selfish?
300
Scholars once thought that the Shang dynasty was a myth. This was found that proved they were real.
What is/are artifacts?
300
Oracle bones were used by Shang leaders to....
What is to ask advice from ancestors?
300
Under Feudalism in China, ________ were below the king, yet above peasants:
Lords, Soldiers, Farmers, Servants.
Who are lords?
300
Daoists taught that people can gain happiness by:
Reading the ancient texts
Serving in government jobs
Living in harmony with nature
Working hard to become wealthy
What is living in harmony with nature?
300
The modern Chinese word for "merchant" is shang ren, which means "Shang man." This suggests ______ about the Shang culture:
They traded, could read and write, they bartered for goods, or used cowrie shells as money.
What is that they traded?
400
Most Shang kings remain in power for long periods because of this:
What is by using a powerful army?
400
If two nobles from distant parts of China met during the Shang dynasty, the best way for them to communicate with each other would be by... ________, because _____.
What is by writing, since they wrote with the same characters?
400
According to belief in the Mandate of Heaven, earthquakes and floods are signs of this:
What is that the king did not govern well?
400
Hanfeizu said that rulers must do this to avoid being overthrown:
Exercise absolute power
Let people do as they want
Earn the Mandate of Heaven
Be popular through good deeds
What is exercise absolute power?
400
Shang kings and his nobles may have weakened their econies this way.
What is by spending too much money on their palaces?
500
This often happened to people the Shang captured in wars.
What is that they became slaves and worked on construction? (have at least 1 of the two-part answer).
500
The Shang used this technology to make strong helmets.
What is that they shaped a mixture of copper and tin?
500
During the Warring States period, this happened in ancient China.
What is 6 or 7 large Chinese states fought for power?
500
Scholars disagree about the origins of Daoism, but do agree on one thing: __________
What is that the book, the Dao de Jing, was written by many writers?
500
Daoism influenced China by:
Getting scholars to study
Led for fights over power
Encouraged stricter laws
Became a popular religion