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China Unit Test Review Sheet
Test Date: Friday, December 14th
Essential Question: What creates unity in China despite changes in leadership?
Vocabulary Words:
Mandate of Heaven
Dynastic Cycle
Feudalism
Civil Service
Centralized Government
Filial Piety
Bureaucracy
Autocracy
Dynasty
Cultural Diffusion
Standardization
Conscription
Middle Kingdom
Urbanization
Commercialization
Golden Age
Silk Road
Synthesis
Regressive Force
infrastructure
Dynasties in Chronological Order:
Xia, Shang, Zhou, Warring States, Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Mongols (Yuan)
For each of these dynasties you should know the overarching ideas of what was occurring
in China at that time.
Concepts:
Philosophy: How did Chinese philosophies influence government and society?
Terms: Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, filial piety, 5 relationships
Use the terms to do the following things:
Describe the main ideas of Confucianism, Legalism and Daoism
Compare the ways these philosophies unified China by influencing government, family,
social class and education
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Leadership: How did leaders unify China?
Terms: Middle Kingdom, Mandate of Heaven, Dynastic Cycle, Middle Kingdom, Feudalism,
Infrastructure, Bureaucracy, Autocracy, Han Synthesis, Civil Service, Regressive Force,
Cultural Diffusion
Use the terms to do the following things
 Explain why China refers to itself as the Middle Kingdom
 Explain the role of the Mandate of Heaven in the Dynastic Cycle
 Explain why feudalism failed to unify China
 Explain the cause the Warring States Period
 Explain how the Han Dynasty synthesized Chinese ideas to unify China
 Explain why dynasties continued to use a bureaucracy and autocracy the Qin
established and describe how they changed it
 Explain why the Han created and other dynasties used the civil service system
 Describe how Mongol leaders, Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan, gained, maintained
and lost legitimacy
 Use evidence to explain whether the Mongols were a regressive force or agents of
cultural diffusion
Innovations: What sparked innovations and what changed because of them?
Terms: golden age, urbanization, commercialization
Use the terms to do the following things:
 Explain the innovations of the Shang dynasty
 Describe the innovations of the Tang and Song golden age
 Explain how these innovations encouraged urbanization and commercialization
Trade Networks: How did the Silk Road allow ideas, goods and people to spread?
Terms: Silk Road, spread of Buddhism
Use the terms to do the following things:
 Describe the risks and benefits of traveling along the Silk Road
 Explain what empires were linked to one another during the Han Dynasty because
of the Silk Road
 Explain how the Silk Road created an image of China for people in other parts of
Eurasia
 Explain how Buddhism spread to China and why it was appealing to the Chinese
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How to study for this test:
 Use your handouts and your notes from class to help you complete the study guide;
use your textbook to supplement or fill in the blanks
 Do NOT use the dictionary or the back of the textbook to look up the key terms. This
will not help you understand how it relates to the concepts you learned in class.
 Come up with evidence to answer the essential question and think about how you
would analyze that evidence
Information about China can be found on the following pages in the textbook:
River Dynasties in China
An Empire Unifies China
Han Emperors in China
Two Great Dynasties in China
The Mongol Conquests
Empires of the Great Khan
p.46-71
p. 97-101
p. 181-186
p. 287-293
p. 294-298
p.299-302