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Geography and Early China
The Zhou Dynasty
The Qin Dynasty
The Han Dynasty
The Han Contacts with other Cultures
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What is jade?
a hard gemstone
100
What land did peasants farm on?
the nobles farm land
100
What does Shi haung Di mean?
it means first emperor
100
What is acupunture?
the practice of inserting fine needles throughthe skinat specific points to cure disease and relieve pain.
100
what is silk?
a soft, light highly valued fabric
200
What is an oracle?
a prediction
200
What were ethics?
moral values
200
What did the great wall do?
kept invading groups out of china
200
an earth quake detector What is a seismograph?
an earth quake detector
200
what is the silk road?
a 4000 mile long network of routes stretched westward from china
300
name chinas two major rivers
the haung he and the chang jiang
300
What were the ideas of confucius known as?
confuciuism
300
What were the nomads known for?
fighting skills
300
when did the qin dynasty collapse?
207 bc
300
What is disffusion?
the spread of ideas from one culture to another
400
who founded the xia dynsty?
yu the great
400
What did daoism stress?
livin in harmony
400
What separated china into regions?
rivers and mountains
400
who took the throne in 140 bc?
emperor woodie
400
What kind of looms did han period weavers use?
foot powered looms
500
What played a major role in chinese civilization?
geography
500
Why did believers of legalism think that people needed to be controlled?
beacause they believed people were bad by nature
500
what dynasty bought major changes to china?
qin rule
500
what uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell time of day?
sundial
500
What is a procedure? the way a task is accomplished
the way a task is accomplished