WORLD HISTORY REVIEW Short Answer

Short Answer Questions What were two significant inventions by the Han Dynasty?

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Why is the Huang He known as the River of Sorrow? It is the river felled with yellow soil that floods and kills many people. What dynasty came after the Xia dynasty? It lasted from 1700 to 1027 B.C. Shang What did the Shang use to predict the future? oracle bone What subject did we discuss that Chinese writing was most similar to? We said you don’t need to speak to understand it. Math

What are the two main deserts of China? Taklimakan and Gobi Desert What is filial piety? It is the respect of one’s parents. What is the art of fine handwriting in China? Calligraphy The Zhou justified their overthrow of the Shang because they were in decline and lost the ___. Mandate of Heaven

What describes the rise and fall of dynasties in China? Dynastic Cycle What is a political system based on lords getting lands granted to them by the king? Feudalism This term describes the yellow windblown soil in China. Loess

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Who was said to be ugly and had a governing system based on relationships? Confucius Who developed the practice of Legalism? Hanfeizi Who was the man who unified old feudal walls and added more? He is known as the first sovereign. Shi Huangdi What is a government that has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary matter? Autocracy

Who founded Daoism or the “Way of Virtue?” Laozi What does Yin and Yang represent? Natural rhythms of life What was I Ching developed for? solve ethical and practical problems What system did the Qin use to build the Great Wall? Legalism

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Liu Bang created the ____ Dynasty that lasted four hundred years. Han How did Empress Lü maintain power? She named one infant emperor and then another. Government jobs obtained by taking examinations are called what? civil service What scholars did Wudi and the Han and later dynasties relied on until 1912? Confucian Sima Qian was called the ____ ____ because of his compiling of the histories of all the dynasties. Grand Historian Who overthrew the Han Dynasty only to be assassinated because of natural disasters? Wang Mang

What is the definition for centralized government? a government in which power is concentrated in a central authority to which local governments are subject Why was Wudi known as the “Martial Emperor”? He constantly expanded borders What is a it called when a government or person controls the resource of silk, iron, etc.? Monopoly What is the process of making conquered people’s part of the dominant culture (Chinese)? assimilation What did Ban Zhao write, it called for women to be humble and obedient? Lessons for Women