Vocabulary
A group of rulers from the same family.
What is dynasty?
The name of the continent that China is located on.
What is Asia?
This dynasty is remembered for creating the first writing system in ancient China.
What is the Shang dynasty?
This philosophy barely has rules and values nature.
What is Daoism?
Cold precipitation to be found on Tibetan Plateau.
AND
This crop was grown in the Chang Jiang Basin.
What is ice and rice?
A group of trade routes that connected China to the west.
What is the Silk Road?
This man-made structure, built to protect against invasions, stretches over 13,000 miles across northern China.
What is the Great Wall of China?
The name of the time period when China's states were fighting civil wars for hundreds of years.
What is the Warring States?
This symbol represents balance in life, and is popularized in Daoism.
What is Yin and Yang?
The other name of the Huang He river.
AND
Ni Hao (Knee-how) means this in the language Mandarin.
(These almost rhyme.)
What is yellow and hello?
China's earliest written records that often asked for predictions about the future.
What are oracle bones?
The name of the longest river in China, often called the "cradle of Chinese civilization"?
What is The Yellow River or Huang He River?
This dynasty began choosing government workers based on skill rather than family connections.
What is the Han dynasty?
This philosophy has strict laws and punishments to keep people scared.
What is Legalism?
The dynasty during the Golden Age.
AND
The metal used during the Shang Empire.
(These almost rhyme.)
What are the Han(s)
AND
Bronze?
A dynasty must receive this by the gods before ruling over China.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
The Yangtze River is also known as this.
What is the Chang Jiang River?
Name the four dynasties that we studied in class in chronological order.
What are: The Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han?
This important Chinese philosophy, emphasizing respect for elders and proper behavior, began during the Zhou Dynasty.
What is Confucianism?
What Emperor Qin did to books.
AND
So his subjects couldn't do this.
What is burn and learn?
A set of beliefs about how to live and how to treat one another.
What is a philosophy?
“Once you go in, you never come out” of this desert located north of the Himalaya Mountains.
What is the Taklimakan desert?
Name one positive change Qin Emperor Shi Huangdi made during his reign.
What is unifying China, one writing system, one currency, or same weights and measurements? (Any of these will work.)
Analyze the following quote from Confucius and describe what is means.
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
What is keep making progress, even if it’s slow. What matters is not giving up. Persistence and steady effort are more important than speed. (Anything close to this will count.)
# of Confucius relationships
Those along rivers did this.
What is five and thrive?