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China
Ancient China Test
Question | Answer |
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Which term describes the yellowish brown soil that blows in from the Gobi Desert? | Loess |
Which term describes how the Chinese grew two crops at the same time? | Double Cropping |
This helped to expand China's ability to trade with western civilizations. | The Silk Road |
List 5 Chinese inventions | Silk, fireworks, bronze, gunpowder, paper, porcelain |
Who had the Terracotta Army built? | Qin |
Where did the earliest civilization in China begin? | The North China Plain |
It is around 5,500 miles long. It was built by peasants, slaves, criminals, and other people that the emperor decided to punish. It is estimated that millions of people worked on it over the course of over 1000 years. | The Great Wall of China |
Eight thousand soldiers made of a baked reddish clay, were buried fifteen to twenty feet beneath the earth. | The Terracotta Warriors |
A mountain range located along the southwestern border of China. | The Himalayan Mountains |
How were the Terracotta Army discovered? | Farmers accidentally found them while digging a well. |
What material was used to paint the Terracotta Army? | Lacquer |
What has the Great Wall of China compared to? | A dragon |
How did soldiers communicate between watchtowers along the Great Wall? | Smoke Signals |
The Great Wall of China was built to keep out what invaders? | The Mongols |
If you put all of the sections of the wall together, about how long would the wall be? | 5500 miles |
The Chinese combined copper and tin to create... | Bronze |
What is the most important holiday in China? | Chinese New Year |
During the Shang dynasty, ancient Chinese used these to predict the future? | Oracle Bones |
Explain the reasons that the Terracotta Warriors were built. | Emperor Qin put an end to human sacrifice and instead, had thousands of Terracotta Warriors created to protect him in the afterlife. |