Han Dynasty Notes Flashcards
Compared whit what dynasty the Han lasted much longer
Qin dynasty
The Han emperors gradually changed the way china ruled why
Because they moved from legalism to Confucian ideas
The advances in working with what was the new technology that helped the Han in warfare the most
With iron
A —was the Han invention the Chinese would use to send
messages from one part of the army to another and frighten the
enemy with strange noises at night.
A kite
The shape of a triangle best illustrates the structure of the Han what
Bureaucracy
Men who did well on what would most likely be hired for the Han
bureaucracy.
An exam
The chain pump increased harvests by helping the farmers bring _____ up to their fields
Water
An invention that wound fibers onto a large what was the change
that made silk production more efficient.
Reel
One effect of the invention of the drill was more ___from___.
Wealth from trade
A brush was the tool ancient Chinese scribes used for what
Writing
Before they invented paper the Chinese wrote on two things
Silk and bamboos
Ancient Chinese healers used the technique of acupuncture to
rebalance the forces of yin and what
Yang
More than a _______ years before people in Europe, the Chinese
discovered that blood circulates through the body.
Thousand
The Chinese invented the magnetic compass to show which way
South
The earliest reason for wanting to know directions was to
position buildings correctly for
Good fortune
