⚰️ Tomb of the First Emperor
Shi Huangdi’s tomb is famous for having thousands of these life-sized clay figures.
What are Terra Cotta Soldiers?
This tool was used to tell time by using the position of the sun.
What is a sundial?
The First Emperor wanted to live forever, or gain this.
What is immortality?
The ruler gave land to these powerful nobles in exchange for loyalty.
Who are lords?
The Great Wall of China was built to protect China from invaders coming from this direction.
What is the north?
The Terra Cotta Soldiers were meant to do this for the emperor in the afterlife.
What is protect him?
This medical treatment used thin needles to relieve pain and stress.
What is acupuncture?
He once sent people to find an island of immortals, but it was supposedly protected by these magical creatures.
What are giant fish?
Most people in ancient China were poor farmers called this.
Who are peasants?
The wall was started during this emperor’s rule.
Who is Shi Huangdi (the First Emperor)?
The tomb had two of these massive structures above ground.
What are pyramids?
The Chinese invented this device to detect earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
His search for immortality led him to drink this poisonous substance.
What is mercury?
Lords promised to help ________ in return for land, a system known as feudalism.
Who is the king?
The main purpose of the Great Wall was to keep out these nomadic people who attacked China’s borders.
Who are the Mongols (or northern tribes)?
The tomb’s floor was said to contain rivers of this poisonous metal.
What is mercury?
The seismograph worked by using this small object to show the direction of the quake.
What is a ball (or pendulum)?
What happens to someone who takes too much of the poisonous metal?
They lose their sense of reality and their body stops working as well.
Peasants worked long hours but had to give much of their crops to this person.
Who is their lord (or noble)?
Workers who built the wall faced harsh conditions, including this deadly danger.
What is exhaustion, starvation, or falling from the wall (any of these acceptable)?
Explain why Shi Huangdi’s tomb has not been fully opened by archaeologists.
What is to protect the site from damage and possible mercury poisoning?
Explain how these inventions show Chinese interest in science and nature.
They studied natural forces and knew much about the world.
Explain how the emperor’s search for immortality shows his beliefs about power and death.
What is he thought his power made him god-like and feared losing control or dying?
Explain how the relationship between lords and peasants helped keep order in early China.
Each group depended on the other for food, land, and protection.
Explain how the Great Wall became a symbol of both protection and sacrifice for China.
It protected the country but cost thousands of workers’ lives to build.