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Geography/Climate
Achievements
Creations
Belief Systems
Who Knows?
100
This river is known as China's Sorrow due to its destructive floods.
What is the Huang He or Yellow River?
100
The Chinese used this stone to make jewelry and other artifacts.
What is jade?
100

This practice involved the reading of pictographs & ideographs on animal bones to predict the future.

What is an oracle?

100
The spreading of ideas across cultures.
What is diffusion?
100

These three theories outline how to create a peaceful society, all emphasizing order but in very different ways.

What are Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism?

200
The three main crops grown in China.
What are wheat, millet, and rice?
200

The Zhou & Han dynasty was able to improve weapons and farming tools through the use of this metal.

What is iron?

200
This material is very expensive and made from the cocoons of silkworms.
What is silk?
200
This religion spread to China and offered hope where traditional beliefs had not.
What is Buddhism?
200

This gave people the right to overthrow a dishonest or evil ruler.

What is the Mandate of Heaven?

300
The Gobi Desert and the Himalayas provided this for Ancient China.
What is protection from invaders?
300
This route allowed China to become very wealthy through trade and exposed China to new ideas.
What is the Silk Road?
300
This device tells the time using the sun's shadow.
What is a sundial?
300
This belief system's teachings are seen in present day China in the high value on family and on education.
What is Confucianism?
300

The name for the practice of children respecting their parents and older relatives, but can also be applied to those who are above oneself.

What is filial piety?

400

This was the root cause many of the issues that struck ancient Chinese dynasties, including communication issues, problems with governing leading to rebellions/revolts, and disloyalty from aristocrats.

What is the size of China and/or its geographical features?

400
The purpose of this structure was to protect China from invasions.
What is the Great Wall of China?
400
This device measures the strength of earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
400
This belief system has having harmony with nature as one of its core beliefs.
What is Daoism?
400
This emperor is known for his harsh rule, expanding the empire, and for building the Great Wall of China and the terra cotta soldiers.
Who is Shi Huangdi?
500

This dynasty was significant to Chinese history due to the stories about the hardworking kings and the work on the geography of China early in their ancient history.

What is the Xia Dynasty?

500
The Qin dynasty is known for these accomplishments.
What are building projects, such as canals, roads, the Great Wall of China, and the terra cotta soldiers.
500
The practice of acupuncture (inserting needles into certain points on the body) is known to...
What is relieving pain and curing diseases?
500
This belief system states that people are naturally bad and must be controlled.
What is Legalism?
500

The Han dynasty and Han families were heavily influenced by this belief system, seen with their civil service exams and focus on education.

What is Confucianism?