Government
A group of rulers from the same family
What is a dynasty?
This symbol represents the harmony and balance between opposite forces.
What is the yin yang?
belief system promoting decency and respect
What is Confucianism?
These made travel and communication difficult between the regions of China, isolated them from other civilizations
What are natural barriers?
Ceramics, gunpowder, paper, silk, and tea were among the many products that China traded along this over 4,000 mile trade route.
What is the Silk Road?
A social system in which lords governed land farmed by peasants
What is Feudalism?
This emperor who started the Han Dynasty was an ordinary person who did not grow up in a royal family.
Who is Liu Bang?
belief system promoting harmony with nature
What is Daoism?
This important river in China is also called the Yellow river
What is the Huang He River?
A traveling merchant who begins their international trade journey in China would make it to this well known city/state if they continued traveling west as far as possible.
Where is Rome?
belief that people must be controlled by a strong leader and law system
What is Legalism?
The idea that each person has the qualities, personality traits, and behaviors based on animals aligned to they year they were born.
What is the Chinese zodiac?
These creatures were thought of as powerful and kind creatures that brought life-giving rain to China.
What are dragons?
This river is also known as the Yangtze River
What is the Chang Jiang River?
This world religion was introduced to China from India through trade routes during ancient history
What is Buddhism?
a belief that the right to rule China that leaders claimed to receive from the gods
Mandate of Heaven
The reigns of major Chinese dynasties in chronological order.
What is Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
respect for one’s parents and elders
What is Filial Piety?
This large flat geographic feature was difficult to travel across due to it's high altitude and signifigant temperature fluctuations.
What is the Plateau of Tibet?
China created a monopoly on this export in global trade by keeping the production process secret.
What is silk?
Qin Shi Huangdi ordered his people to build this structure to defend against invasion from the Xiongnu.
What is the Great Wall of China?
The purpose of this great structure was to surround the tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi to protect the emperor in the afterlife
What is the Terracotta Army?
According to Confucianism, this relationship was the most important to maintaining social harmony in China?
What is parent and child?
A major east-west mountain rage in near the Huang He River & Chang Jiang Rivers.
What are the Qinling Mountains?
During his journey in Central Asia, Zhang Qian motivated Wu of Han to begin trade relations between China and cultures to the west to obtain this type of livestock.
What are horses?