Early China
What term describes a line of rulers from a single family in China?
What is a dynasty?
Who was the famous thinker that emphasized moral goodness and loyalty to family?
Who was Confucius?
Which dynasty is referred to by many people in China today as the "People of Han"?
What is the Han dynasty?
About how many years ago did construction of the Great Wall begin?
What is approximately 2,200 years ago?
What was one of the main goods traded by China along the Silk Road?
What is silk?
What were the rulers of China called before the early 1900s?
Who were emperors or empresses?
What important belief system did Laozi found?
What is Daoism?
What was a significant cultural impact of the Han dynasty?
What is unity and stability
What was the primary purpose of the Great Wall?
What is to defend against northern invaders?
What was the distance of the Silk Road from China to Southwest Asia?
What is 4,000 miles (6,437 km)?
Name one way that physical features helped protect ancient China.
What are seas, mountains, and deserts?
What invention during the Han dynasty changed record-keeping?
What is papermaking?
During which dynasty were laws recorded for the first time?
What is the Zhou dynasty?
Which sea does the Great Wall stretch to in the east?
What is the Yellow Sea?
Name one item that China received in exchange for its
What is wool, gold, or silver?
How long is the Great Wall of China approximately?
What is over 4,000 miles (6,437 km)?
What did the Chinese exchange for wool, gold, and silver along the Silk Road?
What are silk, tea, spices, paper, and fine porcelain?
How did Han rulers contribute to trade?
What is by encouraging trade along the Silk Road?
What are two features of the Great Wall?
What are its length (over 4,000 miles) and its continual rebuilding?
How did trade along the Silk Road affect cultural exchange?
What is by allowing ideas and products to flow between different regions?
Why did the Chinese build the Great Wall?
What is to keep out foreign invaders?
Name one of the major influences on China and East Asia that emerged from the Zhou dynasty.
What is Confucianism, Daoism, or Buddhism?
What was a major achievement of the Han dynasty in the arts and sciences?
What is the invention of papermaking?
How did the Great Wall influence China's ability to control its territory?
: What is by providing a physical barrier against invaders?
Name one major influence on China's culture that was introduced through trade.
What is Buddhism?