1. Silk Roads
Philosophies Geography Dynasties Inventions
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2. Philosophy found by Lao Zi

3. What is Daoism?

4. Philosophy based on
relationships and learning

5. What is Confucianism?

6. Philosophy based on strict rules
and obedience

7. What is Legalism?

8. Philosophy that didn’t fight for
change or want to be involved
with government

9. What is Daoism?

10. The five Confucianist
relationships.

11. What are ruler to subject,
husband to wife, father to son,
older brother to younger and
friend to friend?

12. The reason that China was so
isolated.

13. What is “geographical features
kept it cut off from the rest of the
east”?

14. The two major rivers in China.

15. What are the Huang He(Yellow)
and Chang Jiang (Yangtze)?

16. This man-made structure was
built to protect China from
invaders.

17. What is The Great Wall?

18. The reason that the Huang He is
important to the development of
Chinese civilization.

19. What is the river provided fertile
yellow silt to promote
agriculture?

20. China’s climate is best compared
to this.

21. What is the United States.

22. The first Chinese dynasty.

23. What is Shang?

24. The belief that gods approve of
the emperor.

25. What is the Mandate of Heaven?

26. This ruler who united China in
the Qin dynasty was a Legalist
who tried to abolish
Confucianism.

27. Who is Shi Huangdi?

28. The “army” from Shi Huangdi’s
tomb were made from this
material.

29. What is terra cotta?

30. The dynasty set up a bureaucracy
in the government.

31. What is the Han dynasty?

32. Three items that left China to be
traded with other countries.

33. What are silk, paper, jade and
pottery?

34. Name two ideas that came to
China over the Silk Roads.

35. What are Buddhism, Central
Asian military tactics, and
western cultural ideas ?

36. The animals that were used to
carry items over the Silk Roads.

37. What are camels?

38. The name of the idea that ideas
spread from one country or group
to another.

39. What is cultural diffusion?

40. The places where the Silk Road
ends are…

41. What are Antioch and Damascus
(or the Meditteranean)?

42. Chinese language is made up of
_______________ .

43. What are pictographs?

44. Agriculture was improved when
the Chinese invented a two blade
__________ .

45. What is a plow?

46. This invention replaced costly
silk and made record-keeping
easier.

47. What is a paper?

48. The Chinese kept the technique
used to create _________ a secret
for 3000 years.

49. What is silk?

50. Ancient priests used these to
“communicate with the gods”.

51. What are oracle bones?