Han Dynasty
The rulers established their government based on
bureaucracy
One of its most valued inventions
Silk
How many lookout towers did the Great Wall have?
7,000
Some of the world’s most important international trade routes
The Silk Roads
THE PROCESS OF WHICH IDEAS IDEAS SPREAD FROM ONE CULTURE TO ANOTHER
CULTURAL DIFFUSION
who ruled from 141 to 87 B.C.
Emperor Wudi
Han emperors introduced practices that were less cruel than those
Shi Huangdi
is it the longest man made structure
True
The main route stretched for how many miles
4,000
Many different goods and ideas from three continents were traded on
The Silk Road
a peasant from the Han kingdom, seized control and began the Han dynasty in 202 B.C.
Liu Bang
was it named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.
True
The Silk Roads also included
Maritime
chief trade good
silk
China prospered under
The Han Dynasty
what was used to indicate an attack
smoke signals
The Silk Roads began as a network of
local overland routes
In addition to silk, China traded
paper
cities had populations of
up to 500,000 people
what is the average height of the ming dynasty
33 feet
The Silk Roads had been well established by
100. B.C.
In the late 1930s, archaeologists discovered two sealed rooms in
Begram, Afghanistan, an ancient city on the Silk Roads