Vocabulary or Geography
These are China's two major rivers.
A new idea or invention
What are the Yellow and Yangzi River
Innovation
This marked the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty
What is 1100s BC
Shi Huangdi's new capital city
Xianyang/ Xi'an
Liu Bang
Who was the first emperor of the Han dynasty and the first common person to become emperor?
This religion was spread through the Silk Road
What is Buddhism?
This geographical feature separates northern China from the rest of Asia?
Morals
What is the Gobi Desert
Ethics
A period of civil war that started in 481 BC
What is the Warring States period?
Qin Achievements
(Name 3 and explain)
What is irrigation systems, dams, canals, roads, and Great Wall
Took the throne in 140 BC
Who is Emperor Wudi?
The length of the Silk Road
OR
The beginning of the Silk Road at this city and ending at this city
What is 4,000 miles?
What is Luoyang to Antioch?
The northern and the southern routes of the Silk Road bypassed this desert.
People of high rank
What is the Taklamakan Desert?
lords
From the Confucian text, this is the force behind all that exists
What is taiji?
These were found in Shi Huangi's tomb (be specific)
What is the Terracotta Army (over 6,000 clay soldiers and over 1,400 other figures including dancers, singers, acrobats, strong men, and animals).
The first and second social groups of the Han Dynasty
First- emperor, his court, scholars, those that held government positions
Second- peasants
Products that were traded on the Silk Road
(name 3)
What are spices, tools, artwork, produce, gems, precious metals, horses, animal hides, silk, and wool?
The location site of Shi Huangdi's tomb
The belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled/ punished
What is Xi'an?
Legalism
Too much government, innocent people being punished and even killed
What are the disadvantages of Legalism?
These actions are what Shi Huangdi took to unify China
What is creating a system of strict laws, standardizing written language and currency and building roads.
A style of painting that included portraits of people specifically religious figures and Confucian scholars
What is figure painting?
These two empires were connected because of the Silk Road by AD 100
What is Han China and the Roman Empire?
This is how China's geography contributed to isolation
measures the earths movements
What is mountain ranges, deserts, plateaus, plains, because it was difficult to travel through?
What is seismograph?
Fathers should display high moral values
Children should respect their parents
A king should lead by example
What are ethics/ morals taught by Confucian?
The reason the Qin Dynasty fell
What is Shi Huangdi dying and the government falling apart and not being able to stay unified, and rebel forces claiming the mandate of heaven/ capital getting overthrown and burned to the ground and ending in civil war
This person wrote a series of poems titled "Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute"
Who is Lady Wenji?
The affects of the economies of the regions that were involved in the Silk Road
This widen the world economy and made countries such as China richer because people were now able to purchase items that the could not get due to where they lived.