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WEEK OF February 11, 2013
Strand of Social Studies
Government & Civics
Monday
1. Where does Huang River
get its name?
Tuesday
Wednesday
D.G. #23 ~6th
Thursday
1. What body of water does
the Change Jiang River
empty into?
1. What is a dynasty?
1. What are ideographs?
(p. 224-231)
Culture & Societies
2. What is the nickname of
the Huang River?
2. How much of China’s
land can be farmed? Why?
2. Were the Chinese
polytheistic or monotheistic?
Explain.
2. How is the Chinese
language different than
English?
Economics
3. List two cons of the
Huang He River flooding.
3. List the three mountain
ranges that closed China off
from the rest of Asia.
3. Define ancestors.
3. How are Chinese
characters read?
Geography
4. List two pros of the
Huang He River flooding.
4. List the name of the
desert that separated China
from the rest of Asia.
4. What are the earliest
known examples of Chinese
writing?
4. What is a bureaucracy?
5. What body of water does
the Huang He River empty
into?
5. What did the Chinese
called their homeland?
5. What are pictographs?
5. List two ways the
Mandate of Heaven worked
in Ancient China.
Historical Perspective
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Application Questions:
1. Shi Huangdi was the first emperor of a united China. Which of these changes occurred in China under his leadership?
a. Government officials were chosen by the people instead of by the emperor.
b. Standards for weights and measures and the legal system were put in place.
c. A brand new script for writing Chinese characters was invented.
d. Feudalism was expanded to cover all provinces under the control of the emperor.
2. During the Han Dynasty of China, Emperor Wudi decided China should be a Confucian state and not a Taoist state. This
dramatically changed the way government operated. What was the one result of the change to Confuciansim?
a. A civil service system for government workers began.
b. The Chinese became under the control of their foreign neighbors.
c. Government officials had to be more responsive to the people.
d. Taxes were reduced and government had less control.
3. When the Han Dynasty came to power in the second century B.C., it decentralized the government and set up feudal states for which
of these reasons.
a. To take control of agriculture
b. To reward wartime allies with land
c. To weaken anyone who would oppose them
d. To set up a federal republic
4. The most prosperous time in the Han Dynasty was under the leadership of Emperor Wudi. The empire extended as far was as
Kyrgyzstan and included Vietnam and the Korean Peninsula. This was accomplished by
a. Extending trade routes along the Silk Road and into the Himalayas.
b. Helping allies who were attacked and then turning against the allies.
c. Entering into treaties with the rulers of nearby kingdoms.
d. Wars with neighboring kingdoms designed to consolidate Han power.