Ancient China

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What two major geographical features isolated China?

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The Himalaya Mountains and the Gobi Desert

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What major Chinese discovery around 5000 B.C.E. led to the naming of a major trade route that offered culture, economic, and technology exchanges with other countries?

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They discovered a way to harvest silk produced by silkworms, which named the Silk Road.

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A Chinese philosophy that emphasizes proper behavior and having morals

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Confucianism

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What was the Silk Road?

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The route that connected China to Greece to Rome, allowing goods and knowledge to spread

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What was the primary purpose of the Great Wall of China?

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To protect against invasions from the north

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China is on what continent?

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Asia

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What is the central idea of Taoism? Options: Duty to community, Mandate of Heaven, Living in harmony with nature, respect for elders

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Living in harmony with nature

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What is a set of beliefs about the world and how we live?

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philosophy

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China's civilization developed between which two rivers?

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Huang He (Yellow River) and Yangtze (Long River)

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The Shang and Zhou kings used the Mandate of ______ to prove that God had chosen them to rule.

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Heaven