General
mountains, oceans, deserts
What are natural boundaries?
Built to keep out invaders
What is the Great Wall?
uses pictorgraphs
What is Chinese writing?
invented for writing
What is paper?
Had magical powers
What are ancestors?
highly prized by philosophers
What is a good education?
"China's Sorrow"
What is the Huang He?
started as a feudal state that gained powere
What is the Qin dynasty?
used for worship, work, pleasure
What is music?
expanded China's borders
Who was Wu Ti?
bronze vessels for cooking
What are tings?
taught that people are evil by nature
What is legalism?
honoring parents shouldn't be above this
What is God?
managing a government
What is a bureaucracy?
developed a simpler method of this
What is bronze making?
done with poking needles
What is acupuncture?
made into colorful clothes
What is silk?
proposed 5 areas of relationships
Who is Confucious?
consult these for making decisions about planting, fighting, building
What are oracle bones?
protected Qin in next world
What is terra cotta army?
used to prove that no one should ever rebel against the king
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
detected earthquakes
What is a seismoscope?
developed a difficult process of casting this
What is bronze?
branch of Chinese Buddhism
What is Mahayana?
They were in the center of the earth
What is Middle Kingdom?
standardized weights, measurements, currency, built roads and canals
What did Qin Shi Huang do to unify China?
high point of cultural development
What is classical age?
Swords, armor, rudder, foot powered loom
What are some inventions of the Han?
Much knowledge comes from this
What are tombs?
Taught the best goodness comes naturally
What is Taoism?