Ch 7 Ancient China Test

1. Why was ancient China's civilization cut off from much of the rest of the world?

• China did not know that other parts of the world existed.
• A lack of roads made contact with other parts of the world impossible.
• Geographic features cut China off from the rest of the world.

2. What was one achievement of the Shang dynasty?

• a system of writing
• Confucianism
• the Great Wall

3. What was the Chinese belief system that emphasized living in harmony with nature?

• Legalism
• Confucianism
• Daoism

4. What Chinese leader united the Chinese kingdoms to form an empire?

• Laozi
• Shi Huangdi
• Lu

5. Why did Shi Huangdi build the Great Wall?

• to make transportation easier through China
• to keep invaders out of China
• to show China's building talent

6. What government reform did the Han rulers make?

• They established a government based on a bureaucracy.
• They made harsher punishment for crimes.
• They did not allow women to rule the empire.

7. What ancient Chinese invention became China's most traded good?

• wheelbarrow
• silk
• compass

8. Why did traders travel in caravans on the Silk Roads?

• to travel faster along the road
• to be able to use camels along the way
• to protect themselves against thieves

9. The main route of the Silk Roads passed through which of the following areas?

• Eastern Europe
• Central Asia
• North Africa

10. What new idea spread to China from India by around 500 B.C.?

• Buddhism
• Confucianism
• Daoism