Geography of China
Question: Of all the countries in the world, what does China have the most of?
Answer: The most people (largest population)
Question: Because rice requires warm, wet weather, where did the ancient Chinese develop rice fields?
Answer: The Chang Jiang Basin
Question: Compared with the Qin dynasty, how was the Han dynasty different?
Answer: It lasted much longer
Question: What new technology most helped the Han in warfare?
Answer: Advances in working iron
Question: Who is often called the Father of the Silk Road?
Answer: Zhang Qian
Question: Why did fewer people settle in Outer China than in Inner China?
Answer: The climate was more extreme in Outer China
Question: How did the chain pump help farmers?
Answer: It brought water up to their fields
Question: How did Han emperors gradually change the way China was ruled?
Answer: They moved from Legalism to Confucian ideals
Question: Which tool did ancient Chinese scribes use for writing?
Answer: A brush
Question: Why did people in China want horses from Central Asia?
Answer: They were larger and more powerful than Chinese horses
Question: In Inner China, what natural events enriched the soil?
Answer: Floods
Question: What change made silk production more efficient?
Answer: An invention that wound silk fibers onto a large reel
Question: What shape best represents the structure of the Han bureaucracy?
Answer: A pyramid or hierarchy
Question: What invention helped people determine directions by pointing south?
Answer: The magnetic compass
Question: What made silk valuable in the West?
Answer: The Chinese were the only ones who knew how to make it
Question: Why is the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau called the “Roof of the World”?
Answer: It is very high above sea level
Question: What was one effect of the invention of the drill?
Answer: More oil for heat
Question: Which man would most likely be hired for the Han bureaucracy?
Answer: One who did well on an exam
Question: What medical technique used by ancient Chinese healers involved inserting small needles into the body?
Answer: Acupuncture
Question: What important Roman product was traded to China along the Silk Road?
Answer: Glassware
Question: How did the Huang He River most influence settlement near its banks?
Answer: By fertilizing the soil and attracting farmers
Question: What did the Chinese write on before they invented paper?
Answer: Silk and bamboo
Question: What system organized officials to help run the Han government?
Answer: The Han bureaucracy
Question: Which discovery did the Chinese make more than a thousand years before Europeans?
Answer: That blood circulates through the body
Question: Why did traders form long caravans to cross the desert
Answer: To protect each other