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Lily-China
China
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the largest country in Asia? | China |
| What is a yellowish brown soil that blows in from the desert? | Loess |
| What are platforms of Earth that look like stars? | Terrace |
| What cuts through the North China Plain? | The Huang River |
| The historians traced human settlement and culture in China to the what? | North China Plain |
| The _____ wall the Huang river in within its riverbank when the Huang river passes through the North China Plain. | Levees |
| What is the capital of China? | Beijing |
| What has warm waters of the Gulf of Tonkin in the South China Sea? | Guangxi Zhuangzu |
| Farmers in this region use a cultivation system called what? | Double Cropping |
| What area has the largest minority group in China? | Tibetan Plateau |
| What is the name of the way Chinese people write (they use pictures to represent words)? | Pictograph |
| What was the first Dynasty in China? | Shang Dynasty |
| What was the period during which tools and weapons were made of bronze? | Bronze Age |
| What was the longest Chinese dynasty that lasted more than 800 years? | Zhou Dynasty |
| What is made from cocoons of silk worms, a kind of caterpillar? | Silk |
| What did the Chinese use to export silk and porcelain to lands and import glass, gold, and horses? | Silk Road |
| What was the first dynasty to have a leader be called an emperor? | Qin Dynasty |
| What dynasty began in 206 B.C and lasted until A.D. 220? | Han Dynasty |
| More improvements came under emperor _______, who ruled about 141-87 B.C. | Wu Di |
| What was the practice of using skills and talents to work in the government? | Civil Service |
| What are shells and bones that were commonly used in the Shang Dynasty to predict the future? | Oracle Bones |
| Who was the first emperor under the Qin dynasty? | Shi Huangdi |
| What was built to protect the empire from northern invaders? | Great Wall |
| What are people who go between buyers and sellers? | Middlemen |
| Who is known as Kung Fuzi or Master Kung and born in 551 B.C in the state, Lu Provinces? | Confucius |
| What did Confucius revive older Zhou texts that is called the ______________? | Book of Documents |
| What is a collection of sayings by Confucius that were written down by his students? | Analects |
| What was a way of thinking and living continued to develop centuries after Confucius died? | Confucianism |
| What is the belief in finding the "way," or the dao, of the universe? | Daoism |
| What was the first great teacher of Daoism and taught before Confucius? | Laozi |
| Before what dynasty, China suffered through nearly four centuries of unrest and that dynasty reunified the country? | Sui Dynasty |
| Which dynasty is considered one of China's greatest dynasties? | Tang Dynasty |
| What emperor came to power in the early years of the Tang dynasty? | Wu Hou |
| In 960, what dynasty united warring groups and established a strong central rule? | Song Dynasty |
| Who united the nomadic, or wandering, groups of northern Asia to form a unified Mongolia in 1206? | Genghis Khan |
| Who was Genghis Khan's grandson? | Kublai Khan |
| Kublai Khan conquered both southern China and Burma by 1280 and marked the beginning of the Mongol or the what dynasty? | Yuan Dynasty |
| When the Mongols were overthrown, the what dynasty came to power in 1368? | Ming Dynasty |
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