Ancient HIstory, Chapters 22-24

The new technology that helped the Hans in warfare was

Advances in working iron

An important criteria for being hired by the Han Dynasty was having taken

And done well on an exam

Emperor Qin

Divided territories in 36 districts

Archaeologists found a life size army made of terra cotta a kind of clay in the

Emperors tomb

To large extent The Great Wall was built by

Forced labor

Compared with the Qin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty

It lasted much longer

The Han invention that would send messages from one part of the army to another and frighten the enemies with strange noises at nigh was the

Kite

The Chinese teaching that most influenced Qin Shi Huangdi's style of rule was

Legalism

The group that most likely had the best life under the emperors of Qin's rule was

Merchants

The Han Emperors gradually changed the way China was ruled by

Moving armies from Legalism to Confucian deals

Qin Shi Huangdi the first emperor of China, began his life as?

Prince Zheng

The tool that the ancient Chinese used for writing was

Silk

The actions related to law, money, writing, weights and measures that the emperor took unify of China were

Standardizing practices that had differed in all parts of the country

Two words that would describe Emperor of Qin would be?

Strong and cruel

The discovery the chinese made more than a thousand years before people in Europe was

That blood circulates threw the body

Silk was valuable to the west because

The chinese were the only ones who knew how to make silk

The reason many people sent to work on the great wall did not return was

They died under harsh conditions

The purpose of building the great wall of China was

To keep invaders away

The shape that best illustrated the structure of the Han bureaucracy is a

Triangle

One difference between feudalism and the Emperor Of Qin's system of government

Under feudalism powers were held locally, under the Emperor of Qin's he held all power

Under Qin rule if rich people and a poor person committed that same crime

Yes, They both will have the same punishment.

The chain pump increased harvests by helping farmers

bring water up to their fields

Indian spices were traded for chinese

fine dish ware (China)

The Chinese invented the magnetic compass to show which was south. Their earliest reason was

for wanting to know direct was to position buildings correctly for good fortune.

After the Qin's Emperors death, China

forced rebellions and civil war.

one of the most important Roman products that trade along the silk road brought to china was

glassware

The western silk road ended at Mediterranean ports such as antioch because

goods could be located there on ships to be taken to other lands

The silk road most affected the spread of buddhism by

had its origins in India

Later Chinese scholars have a very different opinions of the emperor of Qin because

he acted both wisely and cruel

The most likely reason why the roman emperor told romans not to wear silk was

he was afraid that wearing so much finery would make the romans appear soft and weak

Cultural diffusion is

in which ideas knowledge as well as goods spread from one culture to another

The change that made silk productions more efficient was an

invention that wounds fibers into a large river

One effect of invention of the drill was

more wealth from trade (Salt)

Han emperors kept civil servants from doing special favors for their friends by

placing them away from their home district

Ancient Chinese healers used the technique of acupuncture to

rebalance the forces of yin and yang

When some Chinese Buddhists crossed Central Asia to learn more about their religion they brought back

sacred texts from India

Before paper was invented the Chinese wrote on

silk and bamboo

The Emperor of Qin ordered all Confucian books brought to the capital

so they can burn it

The advantage of taking the northern route on the silk road as opposed to the south route was

that the oasis where closed

Oranges roses and peaches have in common

that they are both from the west

During the Qin dynasty the reason Confucian scholars were thrown into the pit was because

the Emperor hoped to stop criticism of his government

AT the time of the han dynasty the people that threatened china from the north were

the hans

The part of the silk road that exposes travelers to the danger of lack of oxygen narrow passes steep cliffs and snowstorms was

the pair mountains

Zhang Qian is often called the Father of the silk road because

this explorer opened the way for trade with culture

people in China wanted horses from central Asia because

this explorer opened the way for trade with western culture

The most important reason why traders formed long caravans to cross the desert was

to protect each other

on the eastern silk road merchants used camels to move goods and on the western silk road they used

yaks