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Chapter 8 & 9: Ancient China Study Guide: Pages 254 - 287
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Chapter 8:
Section 1: Settling Along the Huang River: Geography and Early China (Pg 254)
1. What are the names of the two major rivers in Ancient China?
2. Why is the Huang River also called the Yellow River?
3. Why is China considered to be isolated? What makes it isolated?
4. What were two major advances of the Shang Dynasty?
5. What is the importance of Oracle Bones?
6. Describe how the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas had both positive and negative
effects on Ancient China.
Section 2: China Under the Zhou Dynasty (Pg 258 )
7. What is the Mandate of Heaven? How did this effect Chinese rulers?
8. How did the invention of coins help make trade easier?
Section 3: Shi Huangdi Unites China: The Qin Dynasty (Pg 262)
9. How did people in ancient China believe that ancestor spirits influenced their
lives?
10. What are the 5 relationships of Confucianism?
11. List two main Daoist beliefs.
12. What are Yin & Yang?
13. Why did the ancient Chinese place special emphasis on the spirits of their
ancestors?
Chapter 9:
Section 1: Shi Huangdi Unites China: The Qin Dynasty (Pg 274)
14. Describe the rule of Emperor Shi Huangdi. Why is he historically significant?
15. What achievements was the Qin Dynasty known for?
16. Why and during what dynasty was the Great Wall built?
17. What caused the fall of the Qin Dynasty?
Section 2: Expansion Under the Han Dynasty (Pg 278)
18. How did Confucianism influence Han society?
19. What is the Silk Road?
20. How did the Ancient Chinese make silk? Did anyone else know how to make it?
21. How did the Silk Road influence Chinese culture?
Section 3: Han Society and Achievements (Pg 282)
22. What is a monopoly?
23. What role did women have in Han Society?
24. Why was paper an important invention?
25. What is Calligraphy?