Ancient China Quiz

How many mountain ranges surround China?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

What two deserts serve as natural barriers to China

• Sahara and Namib

• Arabian

• Mojave and Chihuahuan

• Taklimakan and Gobi

Which of these is not a river in China

• Yangtze

• Huang He

• Nile

• Xia Jang

Why is the Xia Dynasty a myth?

• There is no textual evidence from their time period

• There is no archaeological evidence from their time period

• We do not know what happened to them

• The Xia did not exist

What is the first real dynasty of China?

• Xia

• Shang

• Zhou

• Qin

What are Oracle Bones?

• Evidence of the Shang's spiritual belief

• Questions written on ox bone or turtle shell

• A way to predict the future.

• All of the Above

The Zhou dynasty lasted from _______?

• 2070 BC - 1700 BC

• 1600 BC - 1050 BC

• 1050 BC - 256 BC

• 441 BC - 221 BC

The period from 770 BC - 222 BC when Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism were developed.

• The Hundred Schools of Thought

• The Warring States Period

• The Qin Dynasty

• The Mandate of Heaven

The Confucian belief that the emperor was granted the right to rule by heaven and if an emperor no longer had the right to rule, they could be removed by rebellion.

• Rights of Heaven

• Divine Right

• Mandate of Heaven

• The Riot Act

What is the Warring States Period?

• A period of peace and reform in China

• A period of frequent fighting between various war lords and kingdoms

• A period of revolution and government change

• The total collapse of the dynastic cycle and movement to modern government structures