Chapter 5: Ancient China

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The Yellow River gets its color from the ____________________ it carries.

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Loess

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The teachings of Confucius were used as basic training for the ____________________, the people who carried out the work of government.

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civil service

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In ancient China, many aspects of life were ruled by the system of beliefs and values, or ____________________, of Confucius.

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Philosophy

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The type of money used by a group or nation is called its ____________________.

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currency

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____________________ led armed groups in many parts of China and were one of the causes of the end of the Han dynasty about A.D. 220.

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Warlords

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Trading on the ____________________ is one of the ways that the people of China came into contact with people to their west.

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Silk Road

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The physical geography around China affected Chinese civilization by

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creating barriers to the outside world.

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The center of early Chinese society was

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the family.

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Confucius believed that if people showed loyalty and respect within the family,

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the same values would spread to society at large.

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Which of the following actions did Shi Huangdi take in order to control Chinese thought? Options: He outlawed the ideas of Confucianism and others., He built the only library in the empire., He trained all the scholars himself., He wrote the philosophy books read by the people.

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He outlawed the ideas of Confucianism and others.