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Vocabulary for the Ancient China Unit

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a region?

a)

a large group of soldiers arranged in a phalanx formation

b)

a part or a section of a country

c)

copying someone else's work and calling it your own

d)

Dylan's new smooth jazz band

2.

What is "climate"?

a)

to be absolutely sure of your answer

b)

the spouse of someone named Cli

c)

an early evening meal; popular in West China and Kazakhstan

d)

the average weather conditions at a particular place

3.

Which is a a member of an upper class of society?

a)

an aristocrat

b)

Che's Crew

c)

a Dalit

d)

a peasant

4.

What is a warlord?

a)

currency that is minted in order to pay taxes to other civilizations

b)

a military commander who controls a small territory within a country

c)

another name of the "alpha" (or leader) of a wolf pack

d)

a heroic food soldier who is honored after a great military victory

5.

What is "millet"?

a)

Ohgyu's new style of hat

b)

grains that are used for human and cattle food

c)

a series of buildings used to grind a variety of grains

d)

a popular hairstyle in among the Ancient Chinese and modern hockey players in which the front and sides are kept short, but the back is grown extremely long

6.

What is a yak?

a)

a deep-bottomed riverboat used by the Ancient Chinese for exploring the Huang He.

b)

long-haired domesticated cattle found throughout the Himalayan region

c)

a weather pattern found in central Asia in which the summers are cool, but the winters are mild

d)

the scientific name for vomiting

7.

What is a connected group or system?

a)

warlord

b)

yak

c)

glue

d)

network

8.

Which of these is an official who represents a country while interacting with officials from other countries?

a)

diplomat

b)

laborer

c)

warlord

d)

artisan

9.

Which type of religious belief worships ancestors?

a)

ancestor worship

b)

shamanism

c)

animism

d)

polytheism

10.

What are pieces of bones or turtle shells that were heated and cracked by religious leaders in order to seek advice from ancestors?

a)

magik bones

b)

oracle bones

c)

Malak bones

d)

lazybones

11.

What is the Chinese belief that power on Earth is granted by divine power?

a)

The Mandate of Agrestis

b)

The Mandate of Lorian

c)

The Mandate of Wind Mills

d)

The Mandate of Heaven

12.

Which is a system of government based on the relationship between landowners and tenants (peasants)?

a)

feudalism

b)

capitalism

c)

socialism

d)

antidisestablishmentarianism

13.

Who is a person that works for the government?

a)

a civil servant

b)

a disobedient servant

c)

an indentured servant

d)

Moeen

14.

What is a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes proper behavior? (Hint: it is based on the teachings of Kǒng Fūzǐ.)

a)

Kingkongism

b)

Confucianism

c)

Behavorialism

d)

Properism

15.

What is Taoism?

a)

a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes living in harmony with nature

b)

a Chinese philosophy that prepares children to grow up to be warriors

c)

a Chinese philosophy that encourages government leaders to rule the people very harshly

d)

a Chinese philosophy that instructs you to eat your vegetables

16.

Which Chinese philosophy emphasizes strict obedience to laws?

a)

Humanitarianism

b)

Strictism

c)

Do-what-you're-toldism

d)

Legalism

17.

What does "standardize" mean?

a)

to make things unnecessarily difficult

b)

to make things the same

c)

to act like Mariam

d)

to be disobedient

18.

Which of the following means to remove or suppress ideas that are considered harmful?

a)

arrange

b)

standardize

c)

censor

d)

Zayed-ize

19.

What is a bureaucracy?

a)

an agricultural society that relies on the work of burros

b)

a technique of combing brass and manganese to form a strong, yet lightweight, material which was ideal for building Chinese pagodas

c)

a large, complex organization that functions under a given set of rules and conditions

d)

Hunan-style culinary techniques

20.

What are all of the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service?

a)

industry

b)

commerce

c)

service

d)

Hamd's Taco Stand