Ancient and Early Imperial China Test Review

Match the following

• Han Fei Zi

• Legalism; People are evil by default, strict laws and strict punishments are needed for a good world

• Laozi

• Daoism; Simple life, turn to nature for happiness

• Confucius

• Confucianism; Golden Rule, individual must do good for the world to be happy

Why does this picture represent the Mandate of Heaven?

• The temple above represents Heaven where the gods are, and the rays of light shining on the emperor represent him being chosen by those gods.

• The emperor is a light bender and is bending light to create a mirage of a temple in the sky above him.

• The building on the cloud represents aliens and the lights are their tractor beam picking up an unsuspecting ancient Chinese person.

• The dude is obviously hallucinating from dehydration and believes a sky castle is about to pour water from above for him to drink.

True or False:

Filial Piety meant children of Ancient China didn’t have to listen to their parents.

• True: Kids in Ancient China were a bunch of stinkers

• False: Filial Piety meant kids could NEVER disrespect their parents.

Millet Grain was a crop Ancient Chinese farmers grew. It needed to grow in ankle deep water. Is the flooding of the Huang He aka Yellow River positive in this case?

• Yes: the floods are what brought the ankle deep water.

• No: the Ancient Chinese water fairies would come in and sprinkle water around the millet grain until it was ankle deep.

What was the main reason traders preferred the Silk Road over other trade routes?

• It was the shortest.

• You got free silk while on the trip.

• All the cool kids took the Silk Road.

• It was the most scenic trade route.

Which Emperor started the testing for government jobs trend?

• Qin Shihuangdi

• Han Wudi

True or false:

The achievement most important to trade in Ancient China was silk.

• True: the rest of the world loved silk so much they would trade gold for it.

• False: the rest of the world could use it for toilet paper for all they cared.

Under the Mandate of Heaven, emperors would be blamed if a natural disaster happened because people thought the gods controlled the weather, and that the gods had chosen the emperor.

Was this dangerous to Zhou rulers?

• Yes: the people of Ancient China would overthrow the emperor because of these things.

• No: Ancient Chinese people were too lazy to take their anger out on the emperor.

Which river did the first Ancient Chinese civilization begin near?

• Huang He (Yellow River)

• Bing Cha Ling

• Chang Jiang

• Xi jinping (Winnie the Pooh lookin head )

True or false:

Building the Great Wall of China was easy.

• True: one emperor built all of it before he died.

• False: it took hundreds of years to bulls.