China

Question 1

What dynasty was known as the most powerful and the largest(Created its empire in 221 BCE)

Answer 1

Qin

Question 2

Who was the Qin’s first Emperor?

Answer 2

Qin shihuang

Question 3

What did the Qin’s central rule accomplish?

Answer 3

Allowed rule from central government effectively

Question 4

What did the Qin people create that solved issues of communications, writing, and language?

Answer 4

Written scripts made after the wars

Question 5

What did the roads made by the Qin do?

Answer 5

Connected cities and parts of China

Question 6

What did the Qin make to establish boundaries?

Answer 6

Great Wall of China(also untied the country)

Question 7

What was the Qin’s emperor trying to accomplish as he grew really old?

Answer 7

Gain immortality(elixirs to life) these are probably what killed him because they were filled with mercury

Question 8

What was found in Qin shihuang’ burial site/palace?

Answer 8

Terra Cotta army to accompany him in his afterlife(consisted of about 8,000 figures all of which are different and unique from each other)

Question 9

What was the prince of the Han dynasty?

Answer 9

Liu Bang

Question 10

What did Liu Bang accomplish?

Answer 10

Defeated Qin army in the battle of Wei

Question 11

What were some of the ideas of the Han?

Answer 11

Adopted Confucian(discipline, moral) ideals and made the Silk Road to unify China and there dynasty

Question 12

What flourished under the Han?

Answer 12

Agriculture, development of goods, making of tools(iron tools), and irrigation

Question 13

How long did peace last under the Han?

Answer 13

400 years

Question 14

What was the largest land empire ever?

Answer 14

Yuan(Mongols)

Question 15

Who was their most famous emperor?

Answer 15

Temujin(ghengis Khan)- escaped a tragic life, unified and organized the scattered Mongolian tribes to form and army to wage war against China

Question 16

What were some of the contributions of the Mongols?

Answer 16

Increased contacts between cultures, built roads connecting Russia and Persia with east Asia, printing and other inventions such as paper, gun powder, and compass

Question 17

Who was one of the very popular Ming emperors?

Answer 17

Zhu yuanzhang-began his reign with popular policies such as cutting taxes and fair government

Question 18

Who was the emperor of Ming from 1403-1424?

Answer 18

Yongle-moved capital north toward Beijing(rebuilt this city), and launched large scale maritime expeditions as far as the Indian Ocean, Persian gulf, and the east

Question 19

What caused the end of the Ming dynasty?

Answer 19

Continued defense problems, bankruptcy, natural disasters, and peasant rebellions

Question 20

What was the Manchu dynasty like?

Answer 20

Consisted of Mongolians, Han, Chinese, and Korean decent

Question 21

What were some of the strengths of the Manchus?

Answer 21

Discipline, unity, military ready, military strategy

Question 22

What did the Manchus have pride in?

Answer 22

Horsemanship and archery

Question 23

How did the Manchu dynasty get its Emperor? Who was he?

Answer 23

Commissioned encyclopedic works on the features and achievements of the empire(won over intellectuals) this person was emperor Kangxi

Question 24

What six states that were in a series of wars with each other made what China(Qin)?

Answer 24

Han, wu, Zhao, chi, Qin, and Yan