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Ancient China

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  • Which dynasty made government officials take a civil service exam?
    Han
  • What did Ancient Chinese use to ask ancestors about the future?
    Oracle bones
  • What was built to help protect China from the Mongols?
    Great Wall of China
  • What sea borders China to the east?
    East China Sea
  • What is the idea that children should honor and care for their parents?
    filial piety
  • Who made up the majority of the population and made their living working on land owned by aristocrats?
    farmers
  • What valuable cloth made from threads spun by caterpillars was traded in China ?
    silk
  • What philosophy believed humans were created evil and needed strict rules and punishments?
    Legalism
  • What mountain range lies between India and China?
    Himalayas
  • What is a symbol or picture in a writing system that represents an object?
    pictograph
  • What trade routes were established during the Han empire?
    Silk Road
  • What were the figures Emperor Qin's had buried with him called?
    Terracotta Army
  • Which Chinese achievement is now a form of artwork?
    calligraphy
  • What were the powerful and wealthy government officials called?
    aristocrats
  • Which desert means “you go in but you can’t get out”?
    Taklamaken
  • Who was elected as leader of the Mongol Empire and helped unify it?
    Genghis Khan
  • What is the longest river in China?
    Yangtze River
  • Which Chinese philosophy believed in the Golden Rule?
    Confucianism
  • Who was the first official emperor of China?
    Shi Huangdi
  • What is a person that someone is descended from?
    ancestor
  • Which dynasty had warlords in charge of land?
    Shang
  • What idea said emperors were given the right to rule by the gods?
    Mandate of Heaven
  • What is a family of rulers called?
    dynasty
  • What is the study of the basic ideas and beliefs of a society?
    philosophy
  • Which Chinese philosophy believed in a balance with nature?
    Daoism/Taoism
  • Which Chinese philosophy believes in harsh punishments?
    Legalism