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China Test Review
China Unit Test Review 1/29/16
Question | Answer |
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What are 2 important rivers in China? | Huang and Yangtze |
Which river is known as the Yellow River? | Huang |
What makes the river yellow? | Loess |
What do you call a ruling family? | Dynasty |
What are the wise sayings of Confucious? | Analects |
This is the belief that people should live in harmony with nature and live a quiet, peaceful life: | Taoism |
Stands for light and dark, good and evil, and opposing forces in the world: | Yin and Yang |
This is a form of Chinese writing: | Calligraphy |
This is a green-colored stone: | Jade |
These were used to predict the future: | Oracle Bones |
What did soldiers, criminals, and common people all help to build? | The Great Wall of China |
The lowest level of the social ladder in China was what? | Merchants |
What was the name of the trade route that connected China to the West? | The Silk Road |
Name 3 barriers that helped to protect China: | Gobi Desert, Himalayas, The Great Wall |
What happened to workers who died while building The Great Wall? | They were buried within the wall. |
What was the nickname of The Great Wall? | The longest/largest cemetery in the world |
Where does the thread used to make silk come from? | caterpillars |
The Chinese have great respect for who? | elders(older people) and ancestors |
China is located on which continent? | Asia |
What is important about gun powder, the compass, and paper? | These were all Chinese inventions |
What was the purpose of the Terra Cotta army? | To protect the emperor in the after life |
The building of The Great Wall is an example of which feature of civilization? | Arts and Architecture |
Who was the first emperor? | Qin |
What was the name of the palace where emperors and their servants lived? | The Forbidden Cty |
What was the purpose of the Great Wall? | To keep the Mongols from invading |
This is the belief that the government should rule with force, and people should work to serve the government or ruler. | Legalism |
This is the belief that all people should be treated with respect and fairness by their ruler. | Confucianism |
What were Shang, Zhou, and Qin? | Dynasties |
What river is sometimes known as "China's Sorrow?" | Huang |
The Great Wall protected travelers along what road? | Silk Road |
The Chinese people believed in what mythical creature? | Dragon |
What is the name of the group of nomads who often raided China? | Mongols |
What did the Chinese first use as signal warnings for the army? | Kites |
What invention did the Chinese keep secret for hundreds of years? | Silk |
This person is remembered for his wise sayings: | Confucious |
This was a "yellowish" soil from the Gobi desert: | Loess |