Chapter 6 Last Section

Question 0

What was the purpose of the civil service system?

Answer 0

Han rulers needed well ­trained officials to help run the country. Needed to train people for government service

Question 1

What were two ways the Great Wall benefited the Qin people?

Qin started it. Thousands died to save millions.

Answer 1

The wall kept out invaders from the north

construction work kept unhappy citizens busy

Question 2

What did Qin do to silence philosophers and scholars? Why?

Answer 2

Censorship.

Qin thought scholars wanted to break up his empire.

Question 3

What is the term for when the government silences or control a person’s influence.

Answer 3

Censorship

Question 4

T or F: Qin believed in education for the common man?

Answer 4

False

Reading was a waste. Burned all of Confucius books

Question 5

T or F: Like the Egyptians, ancient China thought their dead ancestors would live on in the next world and needed supplies to survive?

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What was the Terra-cotta Army?

Answer 6

6,000 waterproof clay soldiers made to protect emperor Qin as he lived on in the next world.

Question 7

The powerful Qin dynasty lasted less than thirty years, but what were two things China kept from his legacy?

Answer 7

The name “China” comes from Qin

He started the Great Wall of China

Question 8

This is something material of value that is exchanged for goods or services. It can be simple things like shells, beans, gold, silver…

What were earliest known form of currency used in China?

Answer 8

Currency (money)

Cowry shells

Question 9

Who standardized the currency used in China? He minted coins that were round and flat with a square hole in the middle. The hole allowed
people to carry the coins on a string.

Answer 9

Qin

Question 10

This Dynasty rose to power around 202 BC. And expanded China to its present size today?

Answer 10

Han Dynasty

Question 11

Under this Han Dynasty emperor, Confucianism became the official Government’s official philosophy? He even started his own university to teach it

Answer 11

Emperor Wu Ti. (Started at 16 years old)

Question 12

A civil servant in the Han Dynasty took three exams:

Answer 12

1. History and government
2. Confucius exam
3. Poetry and political essays (emperor supervised)

Question 13

Because Han was so popular, many Chinese people call themselves this today?

Answer 13

“sons of Han.”

Question 14

What were some of the achievements of the Han dynasty?

Answer 14

medicine - acupuncture
manufacturing - metal material, rudders, silk
science - seismoscope, paper
literature - Shiji, poetry

Question 15

What did Chinese keep written records on before the invention of paper?

Answer 15

silk, bone, turtle shell, and other materials to keep written records.

Question 16

What is the procedure is done by poking needles through the skin at specific points on the body.

Answer 16

Acupuncture

Question 17

Who invented the seismoscope and what did it do?

Answer 17

Chang Heng (Han Dynasty)

used to detect earthquakes (earthquake weather clock)

Question 18

How did the Han Dynasty government use the bronze frog seismoscope?

Answer 18

to determine the earthquake’s location. leaders sent troops out to that area with food and supplies to help people, particularly the farmers, whose work supported the entire country.

Question 19

He wrote a complete history of all the Chinese dynasties through the early Han.

Answer 19

Sima Qian

Question 20

What was Sima Qian’s work called? Why was it important?

Answer 20

Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian)

History of all the dynasties needed since Qin destroyed everything

Question 21

True or False: Paper also invented during Qin?

Answer 21

False. Han Dynasty

Question 22

How did Buddhism enter China?

Answer 22

Trade routes brought merchants and teachers from India to China in the second century AD.

Question 23

Why were boys valued more than girls?

Answer 23

sons carried on the family line and were responsible for the care of elderly parents

Question 24

Emperor Wu wanted to form alliances with other countries? He sent General Zhang Qian who found better horses. trade started… Rode on the Bactrian camel….

What was the main route called, and why?

Answer 24

Silk Road

Silk was #1 product countries wanted

Question 25

Traded into China?

Traded out of China?

Answer 25

In: horses, cotton, fruit and “ideas”

Out: silk, pottery

Question 26

What are the two types if Buddhism?

Answer 26

Ther­avada Buddhism

Mahayana Bud­dhism

Question 27

Whats the difference between Ther­avada Buddhism

and Mahayana Bud­dhism?

Answer 27

Ther­avada Buddhism

Mahayana Bud­dhism - version that went to China. Believe it is their duty to help others reach Nirvana (Bodhisattva)

Question 28

What is a bodhisattva? (Mahayana Buddhism)

Answer 28

a person who has reached enlightenment but delays nirvana to help others reach enlightenment.

Question 29

Confucianism created four social classes? Whar was different about these?

Answer 29

Wealth had NOTHING to do with social class!

The upper class was made up of the em­peror and scholars who held governmental positions.

The second class (largest) was the peasants (valued because they help society)

Third class was the artisans.

Merchants made up the lowest class because they did not produce goods for society.

Question 30

True or False: Han believed in a strong family. It was a crime for kids to disobey their parents?

Answer 30

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