Geography
These physical features separated China from the rest of the Ancient world
What is distance, mountains, deserts, bodies of water
A ruling family over many generations
What is a dynasty?
They were believed to continue living an afterlife and communicated with the Gods.
Who were ancestors?
He was a wandering teacher.
He was Confucius?
How Qin managed to keep out invaders from the north
What is: building the Great Wall?
Chinese city that is the site of this excavation.
What is Xian?
Another name for the Huang He River
What is the Yellow River?
Emperor Qin divided his large empire into these to rule it more efficiently.
What are provinces or districts?
Turtle shells used to communicate with ancestors.
What are oracle bones?
These two of five relationships were central to Confucianism.
What is parent to child, ruler to subject, sibling to sibling, husband to wife, or friend to friend.
Qin practiced this method by destroying books he thought were useless.
What is censorship?
Thousands of these were buried, along with chariots and statues of horses.
What are terracotta soldiers?
The physical feature that formed the northwest boundary of the Chinese empire
What is the Gobi Desert?
Emperor Qin opposed Confucius and followed this philosophy.
What is legalism?
Copper and tin are combined to make this strong metal.
What is bronze?
Confucius believed that you are to treat others this way.
What is: in the way you want to be treated! With mutual respect!
Legalists used these to correct behavior known to be wrong.
What is punishments?
Terra cotta is another name for this substance.
What is clay?
Huge mountain range to the southwest of ancient China.
A system of government in which trained workers report to the level above them.
What is a bureaucracy?
They held offerings of grain and wine for Gods and ancestors.
What are bronze ritual vessels?
Confucius believed that all people held this universal trait.
What is goodness?
Legalists believed that these were far more important than a person's virtuous behavior.
What were laws?
This part of the burial site remains unexcavated to this day.
What is Qin's tomb?
River that empties into the East China Sea.
What is the Yangtze, or Chang Jiang River?
One of two people given the job of overseeing one of Qin's 36 provinces
These unique designs decorated the sides of Chinese bronze vessels
What are taotie designs?
The five relationships were all based on this.
What is mutual respect?
Loyal subjects sometimes received these for good behavior.
What are rewards?
Though their bodies were similar, this part of the warrior was unique.
What was the face?