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23 Cards in this Set
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The Silk Road
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4,000 mile network of trade routes stretching across China to the Meditrranean Sea; named after the most common item transported along it; travel was difficult and dangerous; bandits stole cargo and water; traders faced icy blizzards, desert heat and blinding sandstorms
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What did the Han dynasty achieve?
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-new roads
-government officials had to take exams -the first complete history of China was written -new inventions - porcelain, paper, ink |
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Why did the earliest Chinese people live in the Huang He valley?
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Frequent floods left rich soil which led to productive farming and surplus crops
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How did China’s geography affect its development?
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Isolated, Chinese culture developed independently of most other cultures
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Legalism
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The strictest of Chinese philosophical schools, which advocated strong laws and punishments.
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Confucius thought the most important relationship was
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father-son
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What was happening in China around the time the Indus Valley fell to outside
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The Shang rose to power in northern China.
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Which civilizations suffered invasions by nomads?
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Indus Valley and China
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The Great Wall of China
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built as protection from northern invading nomads; linked earlier built walls across China; required years of labor from many thousand workers;
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What natural barrier lies between India and China?
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Himalaya Mountains
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What was located to the east of ancient China?
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Yellow Sea
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Chinas sorrow
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a name for the Huang River because the river's flooding has wiped out crops and left people homeless
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How were Ancient Chinese cultures united?
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Advancements in trade and transportation during the Han dynasty.
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Mandate of Heaven
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Belief that God wanted someone specific to rule
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Popular beliefs that influenced Ancient China
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Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism
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Social Order under the Zhou Dynasty
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-King-led the government and gave land to the lords
-Lords/Warriors-paid taxes to the king and protected his land -Peasants-farmed nobles land |
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China's physical geography
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made farming possible and travel and communication difficult.
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Emporer Shi Huangdi demonstrated his control over China by
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burning books, forcing lords to give up thier land, and forcing commoners to work on government projects.
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A new form of government that valued family, art and learning was established during
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the Han Dynasty.
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Buddhism came to Ancient China from which civilization?
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India
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Describe some important things about the Zhou dynasty.
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the government worked on many large projects such as irrigation systems and canals. People began to use iron to make tools and weapons
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Confucianism
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Order, harmony and ways of making the world right.
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Daoism
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the belief in finding the "way", or the dao, of the universe. This had almost as much influence on Chinese culture as Confucianism
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