Ancient China Flashcards
What is the 2nd longest river in Asia?
Huang He
What does Huang He mean?
Yellow River
What makes the Huang He yellow?
silt
What is the longest river in Asia?
Yangtze
What kind of scientist digs up the past to learn about civilizations?
Archaeologists
What is the name of the water way that connects the Huang He and Yangtze Rivers?
The Grand Canal
What celebration in spring is where China that honors ancestors?
Quingming Festival
What does Quingming mean?
Clear and bright
What is another festival that honors ancestors that is celebrated in August in Southern China?
Hungry Ghost Festival
What do people offer unloved ancestors, or angry ghosts, so they won’t be angry?
Food
Who, in ancient China, spoke out against war and said that if people were kinder, there would be less fighting?
Confucius
What did people call Confucius?
Master
Long ago, nomads lived in the lands outside of ancient China. What are nomads?
People without permanent homes who follow herds of animals.
How did Confucius want leaders to act.
Like thoughtful parents.
Why did the Chinese NOT want the nomads on their land?
They didn’t like that they did not settle in one place without a government
Who was the first emperor of China?
Qin
What did the Chinese build to keep the nomads off of their land?
The Great Wall
How long is the Great Wall?
5,500 miles
How many styles of writing did Emperor Qin want for China?
One
Why is learning to write Chinese harder than learning to write English?
What did people in ancient China do that made making books easier?
They invented small blocks of wood with words on them that they would press onto paper.
Who did Emperor Qin appoint to develop a Chinese language?
Li Si
According to legend, how did Si Ling-chi discover silk?
A cocoon of a caterpillar fell into her teacup and she saw a tiny thread.
Why did the Chinese guard the secret of how to make silk?
There was a lot of money to be made selling silk.
