Geography!
This geographic feature helped civilizations flourish in each civilization by providing the nearby soil with fertile ground for farming.
What are rivers?
This religion began when a Hindu man named Siddhartha Gautama studied the nature of suffering by leaving his princely life to stop eating, start meditating, and reach nirvana under a fig tree.
What is Buddhism?
Chinas has been one united empire and/or country (in various historical capacities, it’s history is complicated by colonialism ofc) since the Qin dyn in 221 BCE. How many years ago was this? (2021 common era years + 221 bce years)
How many is 2242 years?
Describe what a dynasty is.
What is a family of rulers who passes on the power from parent to child?
This wall, executed during the reign of the Qin dynasty, was meant to keep out invaders and outsiders and to protect Shi Huangdi’s united Chinese empire.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This mountain range forms a natural barrier between India and China and is the tallest mountain range in the world, including the tallest mountain in the world, Mt. Everest.
What are the Himalayas?
This is the name of Indian social classes, where people are born into and cannot get out of until the next lifetime, depending on their good or bad karma and the choices made in their life.
What are castes?
The Harappans settled this river valley and even built planned cities including Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, only to be invaded and overtaken by the Aryans.
Where is the Indus River Valley?
This dynasty defeated the Huns in China (with the help of Mulan) and opened the Silk Road west to the Middle East and eventually Europe, allowing th spread of more ideas and commerce.
Who was the Han dynasty?
An entire army of __________ guards the tomb of the Qin emperor, who united China after the Warring States Period and then imposed his strict Legalist rule?
What are terracotta soldiers?
This color names two water features in eastern China, one of which drains into the other.
What is yellow? (Yellow River flows into the Yellow Sea)
While Hinduism taught that nirvana must be achieved through study with priests and through their own methods, this guy offered the possibility of nirvana (a.k.a. enlightenment) to any who reached it by following the Eighfold Path of moderation.
Who was Buddha?
Name the event that happened first (aka oldest).
a. 551 BCE Confucius is born
b. 2200s BCE Xia dynasty rules parts of China
c. 2021 CE
What is B?
These Indo-European invaders, whose name meant “noble blood”, took over the Harappan civilizations and established their rule in India, using a strict social system divided into castes where the priests were on top.
Who were the Aryans?
The Shang dynasty developed this technique, which they used to carve into oracle bones and then read the future based on cracks made by the fire.
What is Chinese writing?
These two rivers flows through mainland China and fertilize the soil, thought uncontrolled floods can destroy villages and kill those in nature’s way.
What are the Yellow and Yangzi Rivers?
The Han dynasty in China built a society focused on family and order, inspired by which classical Chinese philosopher born in the 550s BCE?
Who was Confucius?
This time period in story saw various armies and families fighting each other and society descending into chaos for around 200 years, from 400 to 221 BCE when the Qin emperor took all the land for one empire.
What was the Warring States period?
The ______ emperor Shi Huangdi used harsh punishments to force everyone across China to obey his rules, since he believed in Legalism and a uniform government ruling one country under his control.
What is Qin?
This trade route saw the spread of goods, languages, and religions east and west from Europe to eastern Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
Describe how China’s geography affected the growth of its civilizations.
How did lots of different mountain ranges and deserts separate people from each other while rivers gave fertile places for growing food?
This book series outlines the religion beliefs of the Aryans, who brought their Vedic religion to India and split the people into castes according to the all-powerful god Brahman’s body.
What are the Vedas?
Describe the meaning of BCE, BC, or just tell me when it is and how to count it.
When is Before the Common Era, Before Christ, or before the year 0, counting backwards?
This was the idea (justification) for Chinese emperors to claim the right to rule, that they had in fact been put there by heaven and an unworthy ruler would in turn have their throne taken.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Yu the Great, the legendary king who could supposedly move the waters and created flood controls throughout the Chinese river valleys, belonged to this dynasty.
What was the Xia dynasty?