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What were two significant inventions by the Han Dynasty?
WORLD HISTORY
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Chapter 2 Section 4
Why is the Huang He known as the River of Sorrow?
It is the river felled with yellow soil that floods and kills many people.
What dynasty came after the Xia dynasty? It lasted from 1700 to 1027
B.C.
Shang
What did the Shang use to predict the future?
oracle bone
What subject did we discuss that Chinese writing was most similar to?
We said you don’t need to speak to understand it.
Math
What are the two main deserts of China?
Taklimakan and Gobi Desert
What is filial piety?
It is the respect of one’s parents.
What is the art of fine handwriting in China?
Calligraphy
The Zhou justified their overthrow of the Shang because they were in
decline and lost the ___.
Mandate of Heaven
What describes the rise and fall of dynasties in China?
Dynastic Cycle
What is a political system based on lords getting lands granted to them
by the king?
Feudalism
This term describes the yellow windblown soil in China.
Loess
SECTION 4
Chapter 4
Who was said to be ugly and had a governing system based on relationships?
Confucius
Who developed the practice of Legalism?
Hanfeizi
Who was the man who unified old feudal walls and added more? He is known as the
first sovereign.
Shi Huangdi
What is a government that has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary matter?
Autocracy
Who founded Daoism or the “Way of Virtue?”
Laozi
What does Yin and Yang represent?
Natural rhythms of life
What was I Ching developed for?
solve ethical and practical problems
What system did the Qin use to build the Great Wall?
Legalism
SECTION 3
Chapter 4
Liu Bang created the ____ Dynasty that lasted four hundred years.
Han
How did Empress Lü maintain power?
She named one infant emperor and then another.
Government jobs obtained by taking examinations are called what?
civil service
What scholars did Wudi and the Han and later dynasties relied on until 1912?
Confucian
Sima Qian was called the ____ ____ because of his compiling of the histories of all the
dynasties.
Grand Historian
Who overthrew the Han Dynasty only to be assassinated because of natural disasters?
Wang Mang
What is the definition for centralized government?
a government in which power is concentrated in a central authority to which local
governments are subject
Why was Wudi known as the “Martial Emperor”?
He constantly expanded borders
What is a it called when a government or person controls the resource of silk, iron,
etc.?
Monopoly
What is the process of making conquered people’s part of the dominant culture
(Chinese)?
assimilation
What did Ban Zhao write, it called for women to be humble and obedient?
Lessons for Women