Ancient China GRAPES Review

Multiple Choice

On which continent is China located? 

• Africa

• Asia

• Europe

• Australia 

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What were the two major rivers of Ancient China? 

• Nile and Amazon

• Yangtze and Yellow

• Mississippi and Ganges

• Tigris and Euphrates

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Ancient China was surrounded by desert, mountains and ocean. What impact did these natural borders have on the culture? 

• They helped to integrate the cultures of other world civilizations.

• They caused China to constantly be at war with other world civilizations.

• They helped China to establish trade with other civilizations.

• They isolated the Chinese civilization allowing it to develop independently. 

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The advantages of the physical barriers that surround China might be..

• Protection from invaders

• Trade options

• Interaction with new cultures

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What was the mandate of heaven?

• Everyone goes to heaven

• Only upper class people went to heaven

• Heaven gave power to the king

• You must do good work to go to heaven

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Which belief system was based on strict laws?

• Confusianism

• Daoism

• Legalism

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Which belief system supported family order?

• Confucianism

• Daoism

• Legalism

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Confucius and Laozi introduced belief systems to restore order after which dynasty began to fall?

• Qin

• Han

• Shang

• Zhou

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Which belief system believed that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled?

• Confucianism

• Daoism

• Legalism

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What two words would describe the Emperor of Qin?

• strong and cruel

• weak and lonely

• compassionate and kind

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What actions related to the areas listed below did Emperor Qin take to help unify China? (• Laws • Money • Weights and measures • Writing)

• He set up schools where they were taught.

• He took ideas about them from other countries.

• He standardized practices that had differed in all parts of the county.

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What was the purpose of building the Great Wall?

• to keep invaders out

• to provide employment

• to punish critics of the emperor

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Why were the Confucian scholars severely punished?

• The philosophers wanted to get back to nature.

• The emperor hoped to stop criticism of the government.

• The soldiers did not know how to read.

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Where did archaeologists find a life-sized army made of terra-cotta, a kind of clay?

• in the great wall

• next to the royal palace

• inside the emperor's tomb

Multiple Select

Which of the following describes the Han government?

• centralized

• harsh ruling style

• not harsh ruling style

• incorporated the ideas of Confucious

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The invention of paper improved Chinese writing by all of the following except

• less expensive

• more expensive

• absorbed the ink better

• easier to bind into a book

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The advancements made in iron helped all of the following areas except

• science

• agriculture

• warfare

• medicine

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Before the Han dynasty, government officials were hired based on

• their civil service exam results.

• their appearance.

• their incomes.

• their social status.

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The Silk Road was what?

• One road that was the color of silk. 

• A network of roads used for trading.

• A road that only silk was traded on.

• The name of the first road in Asia. 

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What was the secret that Chinese merchants kept?

• How to make cotton.

• How to make fabric.

• How to grow silk worms.

• How to make silk.

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What positive effect did keeping the secret of how certain trade goods were produced have on China?

• China was concerned the silk worm population would go down too fast. 

• Chinese were afraid their people would leave China. 

• People would have to come to China and trade. (more money)

• The Chinese thought people would be upset by the cruelty to animals.

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About how long was the Silk Road?

• 2,000 miles

• 1,000 miles

• 3,000 miles

• 4,000 miles

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Which is the most important fact that makes the Silk Road significant to history ?

• It brought Silk to Europe.

• Marco Polo used the Silk Road.

• It was one on the first times Europe and Asia were connected and products and cultures were exchanged.

• It was so long ago.