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Geography
The Shang
The Chou (Jo)
The Ch'in
The Han
100
A long line of kings or rulers who belong to the same family.
What is a dynasty?
100
Praying to Uncle Bob.
What is ancestor worship?
100
The number of years the Chou lasted.
What is 800; the longest lasting dynasty.
100
A fierce emperor.
Who is Qin Shi Huangdi?
100
Only after someone passed a three part public exam, could they be considered for this help the Han rulers.
What are government officials.
200
Mountains, deserts, and jungles.
What are natural barriers.
200
These vessels are what contained cooked meat as sacrifices.
What are tings.
200
These are what the Chou were interested in.
What are education and literature.
200
A system that gives a worker a job and then trains him for it.
What is bureaucracy?
200
A common medical practice of relieving pain; do you get the point?
What is acupuncture.
300
China's two major rivers.
What are the Huang He and Yangtze.
300
The metal that was used to make the vessels used to offer sacrificed meat to their ancestors.
What is bronze.
300
Another name for the rule of the Chou because of their focus.
What is the Classical Age.
300
Connecting a series of walls, the construction of the Great Wall accomplished this.
What is keep invaders out and the Chinese people in.
300
Used before the invention of paper, the Chinese wrote on silk, bone, turtle shell and other materials.
What are written records.
400
Largest deposit in China.
What is coal and oil.
400
Used to predict the future by reading cracks on animal bones heated in fire.
What is are Oracle bones.
400
A wise saying by Confucius.
What is "Learning without thought is a snare; thought without learning is a danger."
400
Consisting of over 6,000 soldiers, horses and chariots designed to "protect" the emperor after his death.
What is the Terracotta Army.
400
The Chinese used this route to trade silk and spices for fruits and items they did not have.
What is the Silk Road.
500
After migrating to East Asia, the Chinese named their land because they thought it was the center of the earth.
What is the Middle Kingdom.
500
It was the last step in the bronze-making process.
What is polishing?
500
The two main principles of Confucius's teaching.
What obedient and setting a good example.
500
The year of the discovery of the clay army.
What is 1974.
500
The device inside the urn, or vase, that moved when the earth moved.
What is a pendulum.