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