Chinese Dynasties
This is dynasty was founded by Han Wudi
What is the Han Dynasty?
This famous Chinese emperor built the Great Wall of China.
Who is Qin Shi Huang?
The Chinese invented this material to make beautiful pottery and dishes, which we sometimes call “china.”
What is porcelain?
Highy, rocky terrain which makes trading exports difficult to do.
What is Mountains?
A person who someone is descended from.
What is ancestor?
This dynasty built the first version of the Great Wall of China.
What is the Qin Dynasty?
This Chinese philosopher taught about kindness and respect for others, and his ideas became very important.
Who is Confucius?
This invention helped people tell the time by using the sun or stars.
What is the compass?
Has water surrounding the sides of a piece of land but at least one side is connected to land.
What is Peninsula?
A noble person whose wealth comes from the land he or she owns.
This dynasty's government was ruled by a king with the help of a bureaucracy.
What is the Zhou Dynasty?
Founded the Han dynasty and created a new kind of government
Who is Han Wudi?
The Chinese invented this to help make writing easier, and it’s still used today.
What is paper?
This area is extremely dry, there is no vegetation and very vast
What is a desert?
a drawn character that stands for objects.
What is a pictograph?
This dynasty wrote in pictographs and ideographs
What is the Shang Dynasty?
A person involved in trade
Who are Merchants?
This invention helped people blow things up in battles, and it's still used today.
What is gunpowder?
flat lands that have fertile soil which is good for farming
What are plains and valleys?
A character that represents a thought used in Chinese writings?
What is an ideograph?
This dynasty created the mandate of heaven
What is the Zhou Dynasty?
A worker in a skilled trade
Who are artisans?
This invention helped to print books and pictures on paper, which made information spread faster.
What is printing (or woodblock printing)?
land near water where lots of trading can occur and is a great area for fishing
What are coasts?
appointed officials who run different parts of the government.
What is a bureaucracy?