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