Rise and Fall of Chinese Empires / Guided Reading Activity 3-4
He ordered the building of a _________ throughout the entire empire.
system of roads
He created a single ________ system.
monetary
The ________ dynasty was one of the greatest and most long-lasting in Chinese history.
han
The Xiongnu had mastered the art of fighting on __________.
horseback
The Qin emperor's major foreign concern was a ______people in the north known as the Xiongnu.
nomadic
The __________ increased rapidly, from 20 million to over sixty million
population
The han period was on of great _______
prosperity
Invention of the __________ and __________ made it possible to sail into the wind for the first time.
rudder fore- and- aft rigging
A vast army of terra-cotta ________ was discovered in a burial mound in 1974
soldiers
New_____ added to the economic prosperity of the han era.
technology
Much progress was made in _________,___________, and ____________.
textile manufacturing, water mills, iron casting
Qin Shinuangdi's answer to the problem in the north was a project known as ______.
the great wall of china
Qin Shinhuangdi_____________ the Chinese world.
unified
This increase created a growing need for a large _________.
bureaucracy
The Qin dynasty dramatically changed Chinese __________
Politics
The central bureaucracy was divided into three parts: the _______ division, the ________ division and the ________.
civil, military, censorate
The key works of the ______ school were made into a set of classics.
confucian
___________ principles, rather than _________, soon became the basis of a new state philosophy.
confucian leagaism
the qin and han dynasties were known for their ______ achievements.
cultural
China under the Han dynasty was a vast __________.
empire