Geography
The continent where China is located
What is Asia?
Used to make many tools of war including arrowheads, spearheads, ax heads and helmets
What is bronze?
The family that rules a country for a period of time. Power is transferred from father to son during this time.
What is a dynasty?
Emperor Qin was obsessed with _______
What is immortality?
The black and white circular symbol which represents balance in Daoism
What is Yin-Yang?
The name of the river also known as "China's Sorrow" because of its deadly flooding
What is the Huang He or Yellow River?
The king often gave nobles symbols of power that might show a "lucky" creature such as a dragon or tiger
What is a jade disc?
The system where the king owned all the land but gave large pieces to his lords to manage.
What is feudalism?
The philosophy Emperor Qin used to rule his kingdom
What is legalism?
The name of the yellow silt left behind by the Huang He River
What is loess?
The name of the extremely high mountain range in the Southwest part of China
What is the Himalayan Mountains?
The "magic 8-ball" of the Shang Dynasty
What are oracle bones?
The right of a ruler to rule based on a divine reason
What is The Mandate of Heaven?
Emperor Qin drank this believing that it would make him immortal
What is mercury?
This kept China isolated from other countries
What are geographical features? (rivers, oceans, mountains, plateau, deserts)
The name of the tallest mountain in the Himalayan Mountain Range
What is Mount Everest?
a written character that represents a word in Shang writing
What is a logograph or pictograph?
What "school" was created during this Golden Age of Philosophies under the Zhou Dynasty?
What is the Hundred Schools of Thought?
Where thousands of people were sent to serve out harsh punishments given by Emperor Qin
What is the Great Wall of China?
This dynasty is still disputed as being a myth
What is the Xia Dynasty?
The largest desert in ancient china whose name means, "Once you go in, you will not come out."
What is the Taklamakan Desert?
the largest soial class in Shang society
What are farmers?
The names of the three philosophies
What is Confucianism, Daoism and Legalism?
Emperor Qin connected sections of walls built during the Warring States Period to create what is now known as what?
The Great Wall of China
This was introduced into China from India as part of religious exchange on The Silk Road
What is Buddhism?
The Chang Jiang Basin is warm and wet which is great for growing this staple food of China.
What is rice?
This group ranked below nobles but above farmers. They used cowrie shells as money with neighboring regions.
What are traders?
The philosophy which centers on five main relationships and respect
What is Confucianism?
In 1974, this discovery which included over 7,000 of these in Emperor Qin's tomb was unearthed.
What are Terracotta Warriors?
The name China comes from this Ancient Chinese word
What is Qin?
In the northwestern deserts there was only one place that water could be found.
What is an oasis?
Honoring ancestors through rituals, such as offering food and wine to the dead
What is ancestor worship?
Philosophy which stresses harmony with nature
What is Daoism?
Taoism/Daoism was founded on following "The Way". Whose writings were these based on?
Who is Lao-Tzu?
What is "shoot a cannon and cause an avalanche"?
The name of the natural barrier to the north that kept the Huns and Mongols from invading China
None - there was no NATURAL barrier to the north that is why they built the Great Wall of China
In addition to ancestor worship, the Shang practiced _____________ as part of their religion.
What is human sacrafice?
Legalism was based on the teachings of this one man.
Who was Hanfeizi?
Emperor Qin burned books about _____ to prevent people from learning about these ancient teachings.
What is Confucianism?
This instrument was discovered during the Han rule and measured earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?