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Ancient China
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Isolated
How would you describe China geographically?
What’s “A”?
Huang He/yellow
river
C
What’s its nickname?
China’s Sorrow
A
B?
D
B
Yangtze or Chiang Jang
river
C?
Gobi
D?
Himalayas
Which letter represents earliest
Chinese settlements?
A
Where do most Chinese
people live?
Eastern section
Why?
Fertile lands
Why?
River valleys provide silt
What’s wrong with the other
regions
Terrain is uninhabitable
Why?
Deserts, plateaus, and mountains
Shang
First official Chinese dynasty was _______________
Why is this the case?
oldest dynasty
with discovered
artifacts
Identify their writing system.
Pictographs and ideographs
bones
Earliest writing was found on _________.
How did the king rule the
land?
With the help of
warlords
Which dynasty followed the Shang?
Zhou
What did they claim was given to them which
provided the necessary authority to rule China?
Mandate of Heaven
How did the Zhou rule their territories?
Creating a bureaucracy
What is that?
Government officials
Who were they?
Loyal aristocrats
What's that?
Rich landowners
What is the time period toward the end of
the Zhou Dynasty known as?
Which one emphasized filial
piety?
Confucianism
Warring states period
What is that… Filial Piety?
What caused this?
Aristocrats no longer loyal
to king or each other 
Respect for family
What was Confucius view about the
government?
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Who created Daoism?
What 3 philosophies emerged from this time period?
Confucianism, Daoism, and
Legalism
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What did it teach?
Harmony with nature
and giving up on worldly
desires
Which philosophy taught that people
were born bad and needed to be taught
right from wrong through punishments?
Legalism
Standardized
money, language,
laws, weights and
measures
Which dynasty united the warring
states?
Qin
Which philosophy did he favor?
What was 1st emperors title?
Qin Shi Huangdi
Why was he considered the
1st emperor
First to unit China as a whole
country.
How did he do this?
legalism
Built….
Roads, dams, canals and
the great wall
Why was the great wall
built?
Keep northern nomads out
Which Dynasty overthrew the Qin?
What was the official
philosophy of the Han?
How did the Han rule China?
Han Dynasty
Confucianism
Who led the rebellion?
Lui Bang
Appointing government
officials based on merit
How was this achieved?
Examination or test
What makes him
unique to other
emperors before him?
List some Han inventions
Acupuncture
Wheel barrow
Rudder
paper
Was a peasant turned
bandit
What is the time period of the
Han Dynasty referred to as?
Golden age
Why were farmers given so much
respect in China?
Fed the people
Why were merchants
not respected?
Only served their
own interest
What trade route developed between
the far east and the middle east during
the Han?
Civil War broke out and
people were suffering
Silk Road
How did this effect China?
Became very wealthy
What was another
effect of the Silk Road?
Buddhism was introduced to
China
What’s that an example of?
Why was Buddhism so appealing to the
people of the late Han Dynasty?
Cultural diffusion