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China: Philosophies, Silk Road, and Great Wall

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Confucius believed that people should live according to __________.

a)

Good morals

b)

Strict laws

c)

Yin and Yang

d)

Nature

2.

Which of these is not one of Confucanism's five relationships?

a)

Husband and wife

b)

Parent and child

c)

Teacher and student

d)

Old and young

3.

Confucius believed that rulers should show a good example in exchange for their subjects' _______.

a)

respect

b)

taxes

c)

donations

d)

prayers

4.

Which philosophy guided Chinese government and society into the 1900s AD?

a)

Buddhism

b)

Confucianism

c)

Daoism

d)

Legalism

5.

What is a philosophy?

a)

A set of guidelines for marriage

b)

A type of math

c)

A strict code of laws

d)

A way of thinking about the world

6.

Confucianism was the basis for China's ____________.

a)

Great Wall

b)

City plans

c)

Civil Service System

d)

Military strategy

7.

Daoists believe that two opposing forces are present in all of nature. What are these forces called?

a)

Yellow and Yangtze

b)

Beijing and Buddha

c)

Confucius and Dao

d)

Yin and Yang

8.

True or False: A person can be a follower of both Confucianism and Daoism.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Confucianism provides a pattern for _______ while Daoism relates to _________.

a)

government; nature

b)

nature; government

10.

_________________ is the spread of goods, ideas, and people throughout the world.

a)

Economics

b)

Globalization

c)

Agriculture

d)

Society

11.

Of the following, choose the geographical barriers that initally kept China isolated from other civilizations.

a)

Atlantic Ocean

b)

Pacific Ocean

c)

Himalayan Mountains

d)

Gobi & Taklikaman Deserts

12.

Choose all of the regions China traded with through the Silk Road.

a)

Africa

b)

India

c)

Australia

d)

Rome

13.

True or False: China imported silk.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

China had a monopoly on silk production. This means many people wanted to buy silk, and China was ________ seller(s.)

a)

the only

b)

one of two

c)

one of many

15.

Of the following, choose all of the aspects that the Silk Road affected in China (directly or indirectly.)

a)

Economy

b)

Geography

c)

Religion

d)

Culture

16.

One bad thing about the Silk Road is that many _______ were spread.

a)

religions

b)

diseases

c)

cultures

d)

ideas

17.

What animal was best suited for traders traveling the Silk Road?

a)

Horse

b)

Donkey

c)

Mule

d)

Camel

18.

What religion spread throughout China and Japan as a result of Silk Road trade?

a)

Buddhism

b)

Christianity

c)

Islam

d)

Judaism

19.

A pass is a route ______ a mountain range.

a)

under

b)

above

c)

through

d)

around

20.

The Great Wall of China was built 9 meters high to stop ______________.

a)

individuals from scaling the wall

b)

nomadic tribes on horses

c)

missiles

d)

people from leaving China

21.

About 1 million people built the Great Wall of China, of which _________ died.

a)

1,000

b)

35,000

c)

150,000

d)

300,000

22.

True or False: Today's recognizable Great Wall of China was built by the Han Dynasty.

a)

True

b)

False

23.

The Great Wall of China is about as long as _________________.

a)

the border between Tennessee and Kentucky

b)

the coastline of California

c)

the border between Canada and the US

d)

the street DACE is on

24.

True or False: The Great Wall of China is easily visible from space.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

What percentage of China's population is thought to have worked on the Great Wall during the Qin Dynasty?

a)

20

b)

35

c)

70

d)

85

26.

True or False: Because so many workers died during construction and were buried near the wall, the Great Wall of China is often called "the world's longest graveyard."

a)

True

b)

False