Vocabulary
A piece of bone or shell heated and cracked by holy men to seek advice from a king's ancestors
What is the oracle bone?
The mountain range in the southwest of China.
What are the Himalayas?
This philosophy taught the Golden Rule.
What is Confucianism?
This was built to keep out the invaders of the north.
What is the Great Wall?
More than 1,000 years
What is how long was the Silk Road in use?
A network of trade routes that stretched for more than four thousand miles across Asia
What is the Silk Road
The Tibetan Plateau is also known as this due to its high elevation.
What is the "Roof of the World?"
This philosophy believed that harmony could be reached by balancing yin and yang.
What is Doaism?
This was used to send messages and to frighten enemies.
What is the kite?
Buddhism, Confucianism, language
What are ideas spread along the Silk Road?
Honoring of ancestors through rituals, such as offering food and wine to the spirits of the dead
What is ancestor worship?
Stretching over 500,000 square miles, this is one of the world's largest deserts.
What is the Gobi Desert?
This philosophy taught that rulers could create order in society only through strict laws and harsh punishments.
What is Legalism?
He standardized money, weights, and measures to unify the empire and make communication easier.
Who is the First Emperor of China? (or Emperor of Qin)
Silk, jade, glassware, spices
What are items that were traded along the Silk Road?
To make the same
What is standardized?
The majority of people in Ancient China settled here.
What is the North China Plain?
He is the founder of Confucianism.
Who is Confucius?
This was used as money during the Shang Dynasty.
What are cowrie shells?
Traders crossed the desert in long caravans mainly for this reason.
What is to protect each other?
The act of bringing together or combining
What is unification?
Because of a lack of farmland, most settlers here were nomads and herders.
What is Outer China?
He is the founder of Legalism.
Who is Hanfeizi?
During this period, the Chinese made many advances that improved their government and daily life.
What is the Han Dynasty?
This brought cultural changes to both the East and West.
What is new products, ideas, and knowledge were exchanged and spread throughout Asia and Europe? (Cultural Diffusion)