What is the name for the trade route that ran from China to the Mediterranean Sea?
The Silk Road
100
What is the longest human-made structure in the world?
The Great Wall
200
What physical features were important to the development of civilization in ancient china?
Rivers
200
Who was from Italy and traveled to China and back to Europe, bringing ideas and inventions from China to the rest of the world?
Marco Polo
200
The Chinese invented paper.
True
200
Name a valuable cloth first made only in China.
Silk
200
Chinese pictures dating back 3,500 years have been found scratched onto the surfaces of animal bones and tortoise shells. These inscriptions, called ___________ bones were used by people who tried to predict the future.
oracle
300
Name the two rivers important in development of civilizations in ancient China.
Huang He (Yellow River) and Yangtze
300
This is a series of rulers who all belong to the same family.
A dynasty
300
There were five major dynasties in Ancient China.
False
300
Name two famous Chinese inventions that came about in ancient China?
Paper, fire works, wheelbarrow, compass, kite,playing cards to name just a few
300
Mt. Everest is a part of what mountain chain?
Himilayan Mts.
400
What physical features allowed Ancient China to "keep to itself?"
mountains, deserts, bordering seas
400
Confucius taught that children should ________ and ______ their parents.
respect and obey
400
The chinese people were responsible for many inventions and ideas.
True
400
The Chinese made writing into a fine art form called _______.
calligraphy
400
What is the name of the Depression that lies in northwest China?
Turpan
500
What is the tallest mountain (above sea level) in the world?
Mt. Everest
500
Ancient China's fourth dynasty was the ________ dynasty. During this dynasty, the Great Wall was built.
Chin
500
The Chinese thought China was "the center of the universe."
True
500
Chinese, the oldest written language in the world, is made up of more that 45,000 signs or__________________.