| Question | Answer |
| compared with the Qin dynasty, the Han dynasty | lasted much longer |
| how did the han emporers change the way china was ruled? | moved from legalism to confucian ideals. |
| what new technolagy most helped han in warefare | advances in working with iron |
| what han invention did the chinese use for these military purposes
send messages from one part of army to another
frighten the enemy with strange noises | kite |
| what men would most likely be hired for han bureaucracy? | one who did well on an exam |
| how did the han emporers keep civil servants from doing special favors for friends | placed them away from home districts |
| chain pump increased harvests by helping farmers | bring water up to their fields |
| what change made silk production more efficient | an invention that wound fibers onto a large reel |
| what tool did ancient chinese scribes use for writing | a brush |
| what did chinese write on before invented paper | silk and bamboo |
| which discovery did chinese make, more than a thousand years before peple in europe did | blood circulates through the body |
| at time of han dynasty, which people threatened china from north | huns |
| why is zhang qian often called father of silk road | explorer brought back word of western culture |
| why did people in china want horses form central asia | horses were larger and more powerful that chinese horses |
| what made silk valuable in west | chinses were only ones who kew how to make it |
| one of most important roman products that trade along silk road brought to china was | glassware |
| silk road split into a northern and southern route. what was one advantage of taking northern route | oases were closer together |
| what was the most important reason why traders formed long caravans to cross desert? | to protect eahc other |
| merchants used camels to move goods on eastern silk road. what animals carried goods on western silk road? | yaks |
| why did western silk road end at med. ports such as antioch | goods could be loaded there onto ships to be taken to other lands |
| what is the reason why romen emperor told romenss not to wear silk | worried taht buying too much silk was taking too much of empires gold |
| what fact relating to silk road is example of cultural diffusion | europeans learned some chinese manufacturing methods |
| how did silk road most affect spread of buddhism | travelers carried budist beliefs from india to china |
| when chinese buddhists crosed central asia to learn more about religion, what did bring back | sacred texts from india |
