1. Ancient China
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2. How would you describe China geographically?
Isolated
What’s “A”?
Huang He/yellow river C
What’s its nickname?
China’s Sorrow A B? D B
Yangtze or Chiang Jang river C?
Gobi D?
Which letter represents earliest Chinese settlements? A
Himalayas

3. Where do most Chinese people live?
Eastern section
Why?
Fertile lands
Why?
River valleys provide silt
What’s wrong with the other regions
Deserts, plateaus, and mountains
Terrain is uninhabitable
Why?

4. Shang
First official Chinese dynasty was _______________
Why is this the case?
oldest dynasty with discovered artifacts
How did the king rule the land?
Identify their writing system.
Pictographs and ideographs
With the help of warlords
bones
Earliest writing was found on _________.

5. Which dynasty followed the Shang?
Zhou
What did they claim was given to them which provided the necessary authority to rule China?
Mandate of Heaven
How did the Zhou rule their territories?
Creating a bureaucracy
What is that?
Government officials
Who were they?
Loyal aristocrats
What's that?
Rich landowners

6. Which one emphasized filial piety?
What is the time period toward the end of the Zhou Dynasty known as?
Confucianism
Warring states period
What is that… Filial Piety?
Respect for family
What caused this?
What was Confucius view about the government?
Aristocrats no longer loyal to king or each other 
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Who created Daoism?
What 3 philosophies emerged from this time period?
Loazi
What did it teach?
Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism
Harmony with nature and giving up on worldly desires

7. Which philosophy taught that people were born bad and needed to be taught right from wrong through punishments?
Legalism
How did he do this?
Standardized money, language, laws, weights and measures
Which dynasty united the warring states?
Built….
Qin
Which philosophy did he favor?
Roads, dams, canals and the great wall
What was 1st emperors title?
Qin Shi Huangdi
legalism
Why was the great wall built?
Why was he considered the 1st emperor
Keep northern nomads out
First to unit China as a whole country.

8. What was the official philosophy of the Han?
Which Dynasty overthrew the Qin?
How did the Han rule China?
Han Dynasty
Appointing government officials based on merit
Confucianism
Who led the rebellion?
Lui Bang
How was this achieved?
Examination or test
What makes him unique to other emperors before him?
List some Han inventions
Acupuncture
Wheel barrow
Rudder
paper
Was a peasant turned bandit
What is the time period of the Han Dynasty referred to as?
Why were farmers given so much respect in China?
Why were merchants not respected?
Golden age
Fed the people
Only served their own interest

9. What trade route developed between the far east and the middle east during the Han?
Why was Buddhism so appealing to the people of the late Han Dynasty?
Civil War broke out and people were suffering
Silk Road
How did this effect China?
Became very wealthy
What was another effect of the Silk Road?
Buddhism was introduced to China
What’s that an example of?
Cultural diffusion