Show:
Silk Road
Philosophies
Dynasties
Geography
Vocabulary
100
One struggle that people faced on the Silk Road?

What are Bandits, sandstorms, mirages, hunger, wild animals, etc

100
The philosophy that taught that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled.
What is Legalism?
100


A way for Chinese Dynasty's to establish their legitimacy as rulers

What is the Mandate of Heaven?

100

This river was the earliest Chinese civilization established near?

What is the Huang He?

100

A violent action in opposition of a government or law

What is revolt?

200
This is a soft, light, highly-valued fabric that the Chinese traded and sent to Europe.
What is silk?
200
This would restore family order and social harmony; focused on morality, family, society, and government.
What is Confucianism?
200

The metal that the Shang dynasty created by mixing copper and tin.

What is bronze?

200
Shi Huangdi had this built to keep invading groups out of China.
What is The Great Wall of China?
200

Honoring of ancestors through rituals, such as offering food to the spirits of the dead


What is ancestor worship?

300

The Romans traded this (along with gold) for silk. 

What is glassware?

300

The philosophy or group of people that emphasized balance with nature

What is Daoism/ Daoists?

300

The Han dynasty used this to send messages and frighten the enemy

What is a kite?

300
The Taklamakan desert had these but the Gobi desert did not.

What are sand dunes

300

A large, complex organization that functions under a given set of rules and conditions.

What is a Bureaucracy?

400

The Chinese dynasty that started the silk road?

What was the Han Dynasty?

400
The philosophy Shi Huangdi based many of his government policies on.
What is Legalism?
400
The dynasty when the emperor standardized money, written language, and weights and measures.
What is the The Qin Dynasty?
400

This happened to the Liao and Sungari rivers in the winter.

Froze and could be used as roads.

400

To remove or suppress ideas considered harmful or dangerous

What is censor?

500

The introduction of Buddhism to China is an example of this.

What is cultural diffusion?

500

The religion that spread along trade routes like the Silk Road.

What is Buddhism?

500

This system was used during the Zhou dynasty, with kings giving land to lords.

What is the fuedal system?

500

This allowed early civilizations to develop in the Huang He and Chang Jiang valleys (and is the reason the Huang He got its name).

What is fertile silt caused by flooding?

500

The Daoist concept of opposing forces of nature

What is yin and yang?