The Great Wall of China DBQ Vocabulary

In 221 BCE, a local ruler violently conquered many towns and states and merged them into a new kingdom. That kingdom was the beginning of the China we know today. This ruler, who came to be known as ____________, died 11 years later, but in that short time, he directed a number of grand projects.

• Emperor Qin

• Xiongnu

• Terra Cotta Army

• Han Dynasty

8,000 larger-than-life soldiers made of clay

• Emperor Qin

• Xiongnu

• Terra Cotta Army

• Han Dynasty

Ruled for 400 years; like the Qin, they were concerned with border security

• Emperor Qin

• Xiongnu

• Terra Cotta Army

• Han Dynasty

The Han sought to expand their influence over the _____________, who lived beyond China's northern border and resisted the Han.

• Emperor Qin

• Xiongnu

• Terra Cotta Army

• Han Dynasty

pounded earth wall

• Hang t'u

• nomad

• frontier

• invaders

a member of a tribe that has no permanent housing but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route in search of a food supply

• Hang t'u

• nomad

• frontier

• invaders

aliens; attackers; intruders

• Hang t'u

• nomad

• frontier

• invaders

the land or territory that forms the furthest extent of a country's settled or inhabited regions

• Hang t'u

• nomad

• frontier

• invaders

a rent, tax, or the like, as that paid by a subject to a sovereign

• tribute

• imports

• exports

• desolate

to ship (commodities) to other countries or places for sale, exchange, etc.

• tribute

• imports

• exports

• desolate