China Review

What is the Huang He?

Some leaders found that civil service examinations were a way to strengthen ____.

___ was one of the goods traded by the Chinese.

By the a.d. 600s, less wood was available in China. The Chinese, however, discovered that ___ could be used as a fuel.

Mongols were the dominant nomadic group in central Asia. They became the first non-Chinese people to rule all of China. What is "nomadic"?

____ was another Chinese invention created during the Tang dynasty. It was used in explosives and weapons

Siddhartha Gautama is the original name of

For about 16 years, the traveler ____ lived in China and ruled the city of Yangzhou. He later returned to his home in Italy.

Korea was once known as____.

Daoism is the belief that people should turn to ____ and give up their worldly concerns.

Chinese painters used a brush and ink to write beautiful characters called ____.

The Mongols lived on steppes, which are _____.

____is made of fine clay that is baked at high temperatures

Who was Wendi?

On what continent is China?

At the age of ____, boys began learning to write the characters of the Chinese language.

In the a.d. 1000s, a Chinese printer named Pi Sheng (PEE SHUHNG) solved this printing problem by inventing ____, whereby each character is an individual piece.

The Chinese built large ____ with rudders and sails, which helped with steering.

____ were forced to work on the Great Wall and the Grand Canal.

Steppes are ____.

The Tang rulers expanded their rule westward to

Li Bo (LEE BWAW), who focused on nature, was one of the most popular ____ of the Tang dynasty.

In A.D. 1024, during the Song dynasty, the Chinese began to print the world's first___ as a way to benefit traders. It still had the value of coin money, and it was lighter to carry.

Buddhist ____ and ____ helped local people by running schools and providing food and shelter for travelers.