chapter 10 ancient china questions

Question 1

China is surrounded by which 4 natural barriers?

Answer 1

• the gobi desert North
• mountains and jungles south
• the pacific ocean east
• himilayan mountians to the west

Question 2

What are the two major rivers that were very important for Ancient China?

Answer 2

• the yangzi river( yellow river )

- huang he river

Question 3

what are the key groups in ancient china from top to bottom

Answer 3

• emperor
• civil servants /scholars
• peasants
• artisans
• merchants
• slaves

Question 4

Explain the 3 major philosophies in Ancient China using TEEL.

Answer 4

confuciansism- is a famous ancient chinese belif system which focuses on a code to help preseve harmonious relationships. examples of the code are you must show obedience an loyalty to your elder or brothers. like a son must honour his father, a wife her husband and a younger brother his elder brother. Confuias also strongly belived that government officials should be chosen based upon each indiduals merit and brains.Confucianism was the major philosphy in china for 2000 years and gained confucious 3000 diciples.

Question 5

Explain why a historian examining this image may hypothesize that this was the home of a rich family. p.g 215

Answer 5

• since the clothes that the people are wearing are colourful and look like silk which was too expensive for a common civilian. meaning that they are firstly able to afford silk and secondly their able to affrod dyed silk or coloured silk. Thirdly all the men and women in the photo look a little fat meaning they are wealthy since the poorer you were the skinneryou’d be normally and the richer you were the more fatter you’d be and this symbolizim was used by painter all around the world.

Question 6

When was the Warring States Period?

Answer 6

481 BC-221 BC and lasted 260 years

Question 7

why did the warring states period happen

Answer 7

The warring states period was caused due to collapsing of the Zhou dynasty which left china with no clear ruler. which some warlords took as an opprtunity to fight their opposing states.

Question 8

What are the two opposing belief systems and explain why?

Answer 8

• the first one is Doasim since doasim believes that in order to live in harmony with each other we need to live in harmony with nature.
• the second one is confucianism which on the other hand believes that in order to live in harmony the emperors citizens must be obdeient to him and must be loyal citizens.
  the main difference between the 2 is that daosim promotes harmony through nature and says that war is a horrible act of sin whereas confucianism believes that its citizens should be obdeient and loyal to the emperor and follow the emperor into battle when needed.

Question 9

What is the Mandate of Heaven?

Answer 9

the emperor at the time would’ve been believed to be chosen by heaven to rule meaning that the chinese had to obey the emperor.Though there was a way for the emperor to lose the madate of heaven being when there were too many natural diasters and wars rebillions would often break out and if they were succesful then new leader or mandate would be chosen.

Question 10

What is the afterlife, as believed in by the Ancient Chinese?

Answer 10

The ancient chinese believed that i the after life people continued to do the things they had done in their original life. Which is why many of the richer chinese citizens were buried with their most expensive or treasured poessesions.

Question 11

How useful are the ancient Chinese tombs found by archaeologists, for historians studying this period? Explain your answer.

Answer 11

I believe that they are personally extremely important since without them we wouldn’t have known much about ancient chinese funerary customs and beleifs such as how they believed that we would continue on with our old lives. Also it helped archeologists find artefacts such as clothing pottery tools and weapons from the ancient chinese civillisation.

Question 12

Explain the two major reforms created by Qin Shi Huangdi?

Answer 12

-firstly standardisation which means standardizing all the states within ancient china since all had different :
-currency/money
-weighing and meaurement system
-vechiles were in all different sizes
though the one thing they all had in common to begin with was tax since none of the states had any.

• secondly the code of Qin which introduced even harsher laws than legalism. and became the new legal system in ancient china. there were 5 levels of punishment :
• death
• mutilation
• hard labour
• flogging/beating
• fines