Geography
What is the giant man-made stone wall built across northern China?
Great wall of China
Identify the four primary occupational classes that made up the social hierarchy of ancient China
Scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants.
What did people become after they died?
Ghosts or spirits.
What does Shi mean?
Scholars.
What did rich people use instead of toilet paper?
Silk sheets.
What type of dry, sandy landscape is the northern Gobi region?
A desert
Explain why Confucian philosophy placed peasant farmers higher in social standing than wealthy merchants
Farmers made food; merchants just traded it.
What did families bury inside tombs?
Food, tools, and valuable items
What does Nong mean?
Farmers.
What did Chinese scientists accidentally invent while trying to make a life-lengthening potion?
Gunpowder
Which massive ocean sits right to the east of China?
Pacific Ocean
Describe the concept of the "Three Obediences" and how it dictated a woman's loyalty throughout her entire life.
Obey father, then husband, then son.
Why did people worship their dead ancestors?
To get blessings and avoid angry ghosts.
What does Gong mean?
Artisans
Why did ancient Chinese people love the color red?
It scared away a mythical monster named Nian.
What river is known as the mother river of China?
The yellow river
Analyze how elite women and peasant women experienced daily life differently regarding physical mobility, economic labor, and the practice of footbinding.
Peasants worked fields; rich women stayed inside.
How did Daoist goals differ from Confucian goals?
Daoists wanted immortality; Confucians wanted family duty
What does Shang mean?
Merchants
What insect’s cocoons were boiled alive to make luxury clothes?
Silkworms.
What specific metal composition ratio gave late Shang ritual bronzes their distinct physical properties?
High lead, low tin
Evaluate how exceptional women like Emperor Wu Zetian or the general Fu Hao successfully seized political or military power despite the rigid patriarchal restrictions of their eras.
They used royal power and smart strategy.
What two main ideas did Buddhism add to Chinese beliefs?
Karma and reincarnation.
What does Sancong mean?
Three Obediences.
Why did emperors keep crickets in golden cages next to their beds?
They use the cricket songs to make them go to sleep