Question | Answer |
Hidden form the rest of the world by natural barriers. | Isolated |
mountain ranges, large desert, and jungles are examples of... | natural barriers |
A line of Kings, rulers, or emporors that come from the same family. | Dynasty |
The Shang dynasty lived along what river? | The Yellow river. |
common people where | Farmsers that farmed rice |
WHat was the Chinese religion? | Ancesor Worship. |
to please dead ancestors, the chinese made bronse vessels and cooked meat in theam during a sacrifice whatr are they called? | tings |
messege given by a persn who is beleved to be able to commmunicate with the dead. | Oracle |
Peices of bone or shell that priest heated with a large metal rod,and if it cracked those cracks were possibly messages from the dead ansestors. they made priests verry powerfull. | oracle bones |
how long did the chou dynasty rule? | 800 years |
What was the chou people interested in? | Education and literature. |
how many characters are there in the chinese calligraphy? | 150,000 |
period that marked a high point in the chinese culture developement and philosophy. | classical age of china |
what was the name of the scholar/teacher/philosipher/ man that thought music was necessary? | Confucious |
whatr whent on during thing like worship,work, pleasury,and archery contest? | music |
how long did the ch'in dynasty last? | less than 30 years. |
who was the first emporor of china and was a feirce harsh ruler? | Qin Shi Huangdi |
What is a system thatgives a worker a job and then teaches him how to do it called? | a bureaucracy |
What did the chin dynasty standardise? | money,measurements, and the type of writing. |
who gave china its name? | the ch'in dynasty |
who order he consruction of th great wall of china? | qin shi huangdi |
how long was the great wall of china? | more than 15,000 miles |
what was the great wall of china's purpose? | to keep invadors from the north out. |
when did a farmer discover a clay army guarding the tomb of shi huangdi? | 1974 |
how many clay soldiers horses and chariots where found? | 6,000 |
offcials chosen to help overn the country. | mandarins |
medical treatment to relieve pain by sticking needles into sertain points of the body. | acupuncture |
instrumernt used to detect and measure earthuakes. | seisemographs |
atrade route that was 4000 miles long that the chiinese used to trade silk with europeans. | the silk road |
When a country is at its best | golden age |
they were the first to use and discover | gunpowder. |