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100
Bought and sold many items.
Who are merchants and traders?
100
This color is the symbol for joy and good fortune.
What is red?
100
Used a needle to indicate direction.
What is a compass?
100
This symbol shows the balance between male and female, light and dark, wet and dry.
What is a YinYang?
100
The only man-made object that can be seen from space.
What is The Great Wall of China?
200
Governed the people, created the laws.
Who is the emperor
200
The most famous celebration that occurs at the end of January or the first part of February.
What is Chinese New Year?
200
A one-wheeled cart for transporting goods.
What is a wheelbarrow?
200
Calligraphy, poetry, and painting.
What are the Three Perfections?
200
9,999 buildings make up this sacred place.
What is the Forbidden City?
300
Made tools, weapons, baskets, clothes, etc.
Who are craftsmen and women?
300
This creature is the symbol that represents the emperor.
What is the dragon?
300
Exquisite fabric worn only by the wealthy.
What is silk?
300
A great thinker who believed a stable society was built on strong family relationships.
Who is Confucius?
300
This connects the Yellow and Yangzi Rivers.
What is The Grand Canal?
400
Grew crops to feed the people.
Who are peasant farmers?
400
These were originally used to frighten deadly beasts, but are now used for celebrations.
What are firecrackers?
400
A highly explosive substance for weapons.
What is gunpowder?
400
Growing this and turning it into a drink is considered an art.
What is tea?
400
Traveled by merchants for hundreds of years. Marco Polo traversed this way.
What is The Silk Road?
500
Ran the courts, enforced laws, collected taxes.
Who are civil servants?
500
It takes this many years to go through the entire phase of the Zodiac.
What is 12?
500
A pulp of silk rags and bark that is pressed flat and dried.
What is paper?
500
This form of religion is nicknamed "the way" and teaches harmony with nature.
What is Daoism?
500
A tomb full of clay figures, discovered in Xian.
What are the Terra Cotta Soldiers?