Geography
Shang Dynasty
Zhou Dynasty
Qin Dynasty
Han Dynasty
100
Mountain range in southwestern part of the empire.
What is the Himalayas?
100
Introduced irrigation and flood control to China.
What was the Shang Dynasty?
100
Rulers of military had to give this.
What is time to the military?
100
Founded the Qin Dynasty.
Who is Cheng?
100
Created these in order to find people qualified for civil service jobs.
What are a system of exams?
200
Two great river valleys in China.
What are the Huang and the Chang?
200
Government organized into different levels and tasks.
What is a bureaucracy?
200
God of heaven should determine who rules.
What is the mandate of heaven?
200
Emperor holds all power.
What is autocracy?
200
Longest ruling Han emperor.
Who is Liu Ch'e?
300
Fertile, yellow soil.
What is loess?
300
Ruled over late Neolithic people who lived in the Huang River in 2200 B.C.E.
What were the Xia?
300
Abandoned his wife for another women.
Who is King Yu?
300
Commoner who became a Qin general.
Who is Liu Bang?
300
Government using price controls to balance economic effects of farm surpluses and shortages.
What is leveling?
400
Walls along the Huang River to protect crops from floods.
What are dikes?
400
Belief that spirits inhabit everything.
What is Animism?
400
Name of woman who King Yu abandoned his wife for.
Who is Pao-Szu?
400
Qin built this famous structure.
What is the Great Wall of China?
400
Famous road of trading that connected Europe and Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
500
Longest flowing river in China.
What is the Chang River?
500
Oracle bones were made out of these.
What were cattle shoulder bones and tortoise shells?
500
Civil war, weak leaders, and attacks from outsiders.
What are reasons for Zhou's decline?
500
Great Wall of China stretches ____________ miles.
What is 1,500 miles?
500
Amount of people China's population grew by during the Han Dynasty.
What is 50 million?