Inventions
The most important advancement of this time. Used in our government today.
What is paper money?
Name of the network of trade routes connecting China and the Far East with the Middle East and Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
A system of defensive walls in northern China built over a two thousand year stretch and extending approximately 1500 miles
What is the Great Wall of China?
Year the Song Dynasty took power.
What is 960 AD?
First Chinese state to be supported by historical evidence.
Who are the Shang?
Created from the ingredients charcoal, saltpeter, and sulfur.
What is gunpowder?
Trade at sea, such as Persian Gulf and Red Sea.
What is maritime trade?
A sovereign ruler of great power and rank, especially one ruling an empire.
What is an emperor?
The year of the collapse of the Song Dynasty.
What is 1279 AD?
China's longest lasting dynasty.
What is the Zhou Dynasty?
Created using bark, hemp and fishnets. Replaced animal skins.
What is paper?
Grew more than six-fold during the Song Dynasty.
What is the iron industry?
A sequence of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
618 AD
What is the year the Tang Dynasty started ruling?
A large group of tribes united under the rule of Genghis Khan
Who are the Mongols?
Made it possible for books to be more widely available to the general public.
What is woodblock printing?
Two religions that came to China through trade with India and the Middle East.
What are Buddhism and Islam?
A system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed.
What is communism?
206 BC
What is the fall of the Qin Dynasty?
Period of time when regional warlords declared themselves king over their own states.
What is the period of spring and autumn?
Created in 1040 AD during the Song Dynasty. Used clay types to put Chinese characters on a page.
What is the moveable type printing press?
What is the Han Dynasty?
Time period of the Tang and Song Dynasties, emphasizing on the significant developments made.
What is the Golden Age?
600 years
What is the span of the Tang and Song Dynasties?
Emperor who feared death and became obsessed with finding a cure for death to allow him to obtain immortality.
Who is Qin Shi Huang?