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4. A noble whose wealth came from land ownership. What is an aristocrat? Category 1 Question 1

5. A character that joins two or more pictographs to represent an idea. What is an ideograph? Category 1 Question 2

6. Children’s respect for their parents and older relatives What is filial piety? Category 1 Question 3

7. Philosophy that taught people should turn to nature and give up their worldly concerns. What is Daoism? Category 1 Question 4

8. Philosophy that taught people needed to have a sense of duty to their family and community in order to bring peace to society. What is Confucianism? Category 1 Question 5

9. Practice of easing pain by sticking thin needles into the skin. What is acupuncture? Category 2 Question 1

10. This is why population increased during the Zhou Dynasty. What are irrigation and flood-control systems? Category 2 Question 2

11. To pay for using land, farmers did this. What is gave crops to landowners? Category 2 Question 3

12. Most people living in China during the Shang dynasty were this. What are farmers? Category 2 Question 4

13. Because landowning aristocrats divided land among sons, this happened to estates over time. What is they became smaller generation after generation? Category 2 Question 5

14. Wu Wang began this dynasty that lasted for more than 800 years after the Shang Dynasty. What is the Zhou Dynasty? Category 3 Question 1

15. The Huang He River was good for China because of ____. The Huang He River was bad for China because of ____. What is good because it provided rich soil for farming and it was bad because it drowned people? Category 3 Question 2

16. The heavenly law that gave Zhou kings the power to rule the “proper way”. What is the Mandate of Heaven? Category 3 Question 3

17. Due to civil war and nomadic invasion during the Han dynasty, this religion spread to China. What is Buddhism? Category 3 Question 4

18. This 4,000 mile trade route helped Chinese goods get as far as Greece and Rome. What is the Silk Road? Category 3 Question 5

19. This is what government officials thought of merchants. What is they looked down upon them and didn’t allow them to hold government positions? Category 4 Question 1

20. This philosophy taught that humans needed a sense of unselfish duty. What is Confucianism? Category 4 Question 2

21. Daoism comes from the teachings of this man. Who is Laozi? Category 4 Question 3

22. These are all Chinese Inventions. What is acupuncture, herbs for illnesses, the waterwheel, the rudder, steel, drill bits, paper, fire works, noodles..? Category 4 Question 4

23. Category 4 Question 5 If someone was seeking a government job during the Han dynasty, they had to meet this requirement. What is they had to pass difficult exams that required lots studying?