Vocab

Question 1

A rich landowner or noble

Answer 1

Aristocrat

Question 2

A body of unelected government officials

Answer 2

Bureaucracy

Question 3

Or Yangzi River cuts through central China; it flows from the mountains of Tibit to the Pacific Ocean; longest river in Asia

Answer 3

Chang Jiang

Question 4

A war between political factions or regions within the same country

Answer 4

Civil war

Question 5

A philosophy based not the ideas of Confucius that focuses on morality, family order, social harmony and government

Answer 5

Confuciuism

Question 6

A philosophy that developed in China and stressed that belief that one should live in harmony with the Dao, the guiding force of all reality

Answer 6

Daoism

Question 7

The spread of ideas from one culture to another

Answer 7

Diffusion

Question 8

Moral values

Answer 8

Ethics

Question 9

(In Confucianism) the important virtue and primary duty of respect, obedience, and care for one’s parents and elderly family members

Answer 9

Filial Piety

Question 10

A barrier made of walls across China’s northern frontier

Answer 10

Great Wall

Question 11

Influential political Chinese philosopher of the warring states period who synthesized the methods of earlier Chinese Realpolitik using the relatively recent innovation of rule by law

Answer 11

Hanfeizi

Question 12

Or Yellow River; stretches for nearly 3000 miles across northern China; often floods and can be destructive, known as “China’s sorrow

Answer 12

Huang He (Ho)

Question 13

A written symbol that represents an idea or object directly rather than a particular word speech sound, as a Chinese character; ideogram

Answer 13

Ideograph

Question 14

A new idea, method, or device

Answer 14

Innovation

Question 15

A hard gemstone often used in jewelry

Answer 15

Jade

Question 16

Chinese philosopher, he was the most famous Daoist teacher. He is credited with writing “the way and its power”, Daoism’s basic text

Answer 16

Laozi

Question 17

A Chinese belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled

Answer 17

Legalism

Question 18

Chinese emperor, he found the Han dynasty

Answer 18

Liu Bang

Question 19

A person of high rank who owned land but owed loyalty to his King

Answer 19

Lord

Question 20

An official order or commission to do something

Answer 20

Mandate

Question 21

A prediction by a wise person, or a person who makes a prediction

Answer 21

Oracle

Question 22

A farmer with a small farm

Answer 22

Peasant

Question 23

A picture symbol

Answer 23

Pictograph

Question 24

The way a task is accomplished

Answer 24

Procedure

Question 25

A device that measures that strength of an earthquake

Answer 25

Seismograph

Question 26

Ruler of China, he united China for the first time. He built roads and canals and began the Great Wall of China. He also imposed a standard system of laws, money, and writing system in China

Answer 26

Shi Huangdi

Question 27

A soft, light, and valued fabric developed in China

Answer 27

Silk

Question 28

A network of trade routes that stretched across Asia from China to the Mediterranean Sea

Answer 28

Silk Road

Question 29

Form; construct or arrange according to a plan; give a pattern or organization to; build

Answer 29

Structure

Question 30

A device that uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day

Answer 30

Sundial

Question 31

To be different

Answer 31

Vary

Question 32

Empress of China during the Tang Dynasty, she ruled ruthlessly and brought prosperity to China

Answer 32

Wu Wang

Question 33

An arm of the Pacific N of the East China Sea between China and Korea

Answer 33

Yellow Sea

Question 34

Legendary ruler in ancient China famed for his introduction of flood control, inaugurating (begin or introduce) found the xia dynasty

Answer 34

Yu the Great

Question 35

Service as a government official

Answer 35

Civil service

Question 36

Chinese practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain

Answer 36

Acupuncture