China

Question 1

When did the Shang dynasty rule?

Answer 1

End of 2nd millenium BC

Question 2

Where were the Shang dynasty based?

Answer 2

Wei river valley, north central China

Question 3

When did the Zhou dynasty rule?

Answer 3

1000BC-250BC

Question 4

What three things mark out the Zhou dynasty?

Answer 4

1. longest dynasty in Chinese history
2. introduction of iron
3. evolution of writing

Question 5

When did Confucianism and Taoism spread?

Answer 5

After the period of the Warring Dynasties?

Question 6

Which dynasty founded the first Chinese empire?

Answer 6

Qin

Question 7

When did Qin Shi Huang Ti rule?

Answer 7

221-210 BC

Question 8

Who was the most prominent Qin dynasty ruler?

Answer 8

Qin Shi Huang Ti

Question 9

What was Qin Shi Huang Ti buried with?

Answer 9

Terracota army

Question 10

Who built the Terracota Army?

Answer 10

Qin Shi Huang Ti

Question 11

When did the Han dynasty rule? Who were they conemporaneous with?

Answer 11

2nd c BC- 2nd c AD, Roman empire

Question 12

Who started the Great Wall of China?

Answer 12

Han dynasty

Question 13

What 2 factors caused the demise of the Han dynasty?

Answer 13

1. threatening Hun

2. invaders from the west

Question 14

When was the period of the Six Kingdoms?

Answer 14

2nd c AD- 589

Question 15

When did the Sui dynasty rule?

Answer 15

589-618

Question 16

Where was the Sui capital?

Answer 16

Chang’an, on the Wei river

Question 17

What did the Sui dynasty build?

Answer 17

Grand Canal

Question 18

How long is the Grand Canal?

Answer 18

1,776km

Question 19

What does the Grand Canal connect?

Answer 19

Yellow and Yangtze rivers

Question 20

What two products proliferated due to the Grand Canal? What was used for the first time to pay for them?

Answer 20

Rice and tea. Paper money

Question 21

Which region of China most benefited from the Grand Canal?

Answer 21

South China

Question 22

Which region of China did the Sui dynasty conquer? What effect did this have?

Answer 22

The north; united China

Question 23

When did the Tang dynasty rule?

Answer 23

618-906

Question 24

What was the Tang capital called, and what supplied it? How big was it?

Answer 24

Chang’an, the Grand Canal. 10 sq km

Question 25

Name the first four Tang emperors

Answer 25

1. Gaozu
2. Taizong
3. Gaozong
4. Wu Ze Tian

Question 26

What marks Wu Ze Tian out?

Answer 26

First female emperor; she was not an empress

Question 27

What two factors allowed expansion through the Gobi desert?

Answer 27

1. proliferation of horses

2. Silk Road

Question 28

What three cities in Central Asia did the Tangs reach?

Answer 28

1. Tashkent
2. Samarkand
3. Bukhara

Question 29

What stopped Tang expansion westwards?

Answer 29

Battle of Talas, 752

Question 30

Who was the Battle of Talas between, and what year was it fought?

Answer 30

Abbasids and Tang dynasty, 752

Question 31

What consequence for Western culture did the Battle of Talas have?

Answer 31

Chinese prisoners brought paper to Baghdad

Question 32

What did north China eat? What did south China eat?

Answer 32

Noodles; rice

Question 33

Who translated the Buddhist texts from the Sanskrit? When did he live?

Answer 33

Faxian, 337-422

Question 34

What route did Faxian take?

Answer 34

Anti-clockwise around the Himalayas

Question 35

Who is the Buddhist equivalent of St Jerome?

Answer 35

Faxian

Question 36

Which form of Buddhism spread under the Tang dynasty?

Answer 36

Chan (zen)