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churchill CA 7 china
Churchill CA 7 China
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which mountain range separates China from India? | Himalayas |
| Which desert lies closest to the Hindu Kush range? | Taklimakan Desert |
| The major rivers are in the ____ part of China | Eastern |
| Which female denied her sons the right to rule, and imposed tests of ability to determine the people who could work for the government? | Empress Wu |
| Which dynasty began the Grand Canal? | Sui |
| How was rice transported from southern to northern China? | The Grand Canal |
| This 3+ century time period followed the fall of the Han dynasty. | Period of Disunion |
| The Period of Disunion was also known as... | The Warring States period |
| Construction of this waterway was started in the Sui dynasty and expanded in the Tang dynasty. | The Grand Canal |
| This portable irrigation system allowed one person to do the work of several. | Dragon backbone pump |
| This food created a surplus and allowed cities to grow to 1 million inhabitants. | Fast growing rice |
| One of China's greatest inventions that made keeping records easier and cheap. | Paper |
| A fragile, transparent pottery developed during the Tang dynasty | Porcelain |
| Tang dynasty invention that allowed printers to copy drawings more quickly than by hand. | Woodblock printing |
| This invention during the late Tang or early Song dynasty was usually used for signals and fireworks. | Gunpowder |
| This Song dynasty invention meant print could be rearranged and used many times. | Movable type |
| Invented by the Han and improved during the Tang dynasty, this invention allowed merchants and sailors to sail safely even in the fog. | Magnetic compass |
| Coins became too heavy as China became wealthier during the Song dynasty. So ___ was invented. | Paper money |
| This man believed that children should obey their parents and subjects should obey their ruler. | Confucius |
| This religion stressed escape from suffering through meditation. | Buddhism |
| This philosophy combined Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism | Neo-Confucianism |
| A large number of unelected government officials | Bureaucracy |
| The class of officials who passed difficult tests after many years of study. | Scholar-officials |
| The exams that high level government officials needed to pass | Civil service exams |
| Nomadic tribes who lived north of China | Mongols |
| Temujin's title after he united the Mongol tribes for the first time in history. | Genghis Khan |
| China was entirely under the control of ____, who named his rule the Yuan Dynasty | Kublai Khan |
| This European merchant became famous for the 20 years he spent in China during the Yuan dyansty. | Marco Polo |
| The Mongol invasions that were NOT successful were against the country of __. | Japan |
| The first Ming dynasty emperor had once been a__. | Monk |
| The greatest Chinese sailor during the Ming Dynasty was | Zheng He |
| The Ming built the ____ in Beijing. | Forbidden City |
| The Ming restored the ___. | Great Wall |
| Less than 100 years after the Ming dynasty began, the government began China's period of __. | Isolationism |
| The flat, sparse, high elevation lands north of China, populated by nomadic peoples. | Steppes |
| People who live temporarily where they can find fresh water and food for themselves or their animals. | Nomads |
| ________ was born in the 1100s, and grew up to become the first person to unite all Mongols. | Temujin |
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