The earliest form of Chinese writing were characters that looked like what they represented. What are these called?
cuneiform
hieroglyphs
pictograms
alphabetic letters
The Chinese writing system uses symbols where each symbol stands for a word or part of a word. What is one of these symbols called?
syllable
character
digit
letter
Which Chinese dynasty completed the unification of China in 221 BCE?
Qin
Zhou
Han
Shang
Who became the first “Emperor” of a unified China?
Liu Bang
Sun Wu
Qin Shi Huang
King Zheng
The period before the Qin unification, when many Chinese kingdoms fought each other, is called the _____.
Spring & Autumn Period
Age of Divided Kingdoms
Era of the Five Dynasties
Warring States Period
Which major construction did Qin Shi Huang begin to protect his empire from northern invaders?
The Silk Road
The Grand Canal
The Forbidden City
The Great Wall
What craft of fine writing and brush strokes in China is known as?
Lithography
Engraving
Typography
Calligraphy
The tomb of Qin Shi Huang is famous for the thousands of what?
Terracotta Warriors
Golden masks
Bronze chariots
Jade figurines
What was one method used by the Qin state to suppress dissent and unify the empire?
Allowing free speech
Burning books & burying scholars
Publishing all philosophies
Inviting all scholars to dinner
Pictograms in ancient China gradually evolved into more abstract symbols so the writing system became more efficient. True or False?
Only after the Han
Depends on province
False
True
What is the term for the early pictorial writing used in China?
Cuneiform
Phoenician abbreviations
Oracle bone script
Runes
Which state did the Qin kingdom defeat last to unify China?
One of the other Warring States
The Shang state
The Han state
The Zhou state
The “First Emperor” had his rivals and noble families moved to his capital in order to control them. True or False?
He kept them in place
False
He banished them
True
Which metal weapon became common in the Qin army that helped them win wars?
Bronze spears
Wooden clubs
Iron swords & crossbows
Stone axes
The writing reforms helped make government administration across the empire easier and more unified. True or False?
False
Only for local areas
They made confusion worse
True
