Lesson 1
This is the major desert in China
What is the Gobi Desert?
This is the idea that kings or emperors get their power from the heavens
What is the mandate of heaven?
This means first emperor
What is Shi Huangdi?
This was the name of the first peasant to become emperor
Who is Liu Bang?
This is the longest trading route
What is the Silk Road?
What is the Yellow River?
This is the most influential teacher in Chinese history
Who is Confucius?
This is why the Great Wall of China was built
To keep out invaders from the north
This was the family member who was supposed to carry on the family legacy
Who is the son of the family?
This is where the Silk Road started and went to
What is it started in eastern Asia and ended in Europe?
This is another name for the Chang Jiang River
What is the Yangzi River?
These are the three main belief systems in China
What is Confucianism, Legalism, and Daoism?
This is the belief system Shi Huangdi followed
This is the device invented to measure earthquakes
What is the seismograph?
This is the length of the Silk Road
What is around 4,000 miles?
This is the reason farming started along rivers in China
What is silt and fertile soil?
This belief system is characterized by strict laws and punishments
What is Legalism?
This is an invention or advancement that was introduced during the Qin Dynasty
What is roads and water systems
What is: the rich lived in large palaces with expensive decorations and the poor lived simple lives and wore plain clothes?
This is why the Silk Road was dangerous to travel
What is difficult weather (blizzards, heatwaves, sandstorms) and bandits who would try to steal their goods?
These were used to predict the future
What are oracle bones?
This belief system said the government should stay out of people's lives and people should not try to gain wealth
What is Daoism?
This was done to unify the different parts of the Qin Dynasty
What is set uniform (the same): laws, rules, punishments, writing, money system, weights, measurements?
This is the belief system the Han Dynasty based their government off of
What is Confucianism?
These are some of the things traded along the Silk Road
What is:
Silk
Spices
Tools
Artwork
Produce (fruits, vegetables)
Gems
Precious Metals
Horses
Animal Hides
Ideas/Knowledge
Religion