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Ancient China Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Near which river did the first Chinese civilization begin?

a)

Yaung He

b)

Yulan

c)

Yellow

d)

Yang Tze

2.

Who was Confucius?

a)

A priest who spread Buddhism throughout China

b)

A philosopher who created a value system for China

c)

A warrior who conquered the Seven Warring Kingdoms in China

d)

A wise scholar who healed the sick using herbal medicines

3.

What was the Silk Road?

a)

A transport route used to take China’s silk worms to Rome

b)

A military road used by China’s huge army to travel throughout China

c)

A trade route used to transport China’s goods and products

d)

A secret route used by spies to steal China’s silk-making process

4.

What was the original purpose for building the Great Wall of China?

a)

To keep out China’s enemies that often invaded them from the north

b)

To control the floods that would cause a tremendous about of damage

c)

To fight monsters who were eating people in China

d)

To be used as a huge burial plots for nobles and wealthy Chinese

5.

Which of the following was NOT an invention of China?

a)

Wheelbarrow

b)

Acupuncture

c)

Compass

d)

Inoculations (vaccines/injections)

6.

Which of the following was the first civilization in China?

a)

Han Dynasty

b)

Qin Dynasty

c)

Shang Dynasty

d)

Zhou Dynasty

7.

Which of the following was the first person to unify China?

a)

Shi Huangdi

b)

Chiang Kai-shek

c)

Liu Bang

d)

Mao Tse Tung

8.

Why did China originally have very little knowledge of the rest of the world?

a)

A railroad separated Ancient China from the rest of the world

b)

Geographic barriers, such as mountains and seas, separated China from other lands

c)

They couldn't read other people's writing.

d)

They never checked Facebook

9.

Who was the Han Emperor who led Ancient China at its most powerful?

a)

Emperor Wudi

b)

Liu Bang

c)

Jotaro Kujo

d)

Liu Kang

10.

What did the Chinese to to control flooding of the Huang River?

a)

They used loess to protect themselves

b)

They built dikes, or protective walls, along the Huang's banks.

c)

They built a a large mechanical dam

d)

They created the Great Wall

11.

Which of the following was an action taken by Shi Huangdi?

a)

He persecuted many people and tried to control their lives.

b)

He created the King of Iron Fist Tournament

c)

He wanted to unify china with one currency and language.

d)

He took over the Chinese senate with the help of his apprentice

12.

What was the Mandate of Heaven?

a)

fighting for rule of the throne

b)

A tournament to save Earth

c)

the idea that people came to power because it was their destiny

d)

closely related people of several generations

13.

Confucius believed his role was passing down forgotten wisdom and never wrote down his teachings. So, how do we have his sayings today?

a)

Someone videoed him while he was teaching

b)

His students wrote and passed them down in collections (books) after his death

c)

He made a google classroom

d)

He made memes and shared them on social media

14.

Confucius wanted to bring order to society. What did he believe would happen if people were taught to behave properly to each other?

a)

There would be war

b)

The government would be destroyed

c)

There would be peace and prosperity

d)

People wouldn't get along

15.

What was the most important part of Ancient Chinese life - More important that yourself or the nation?

a)

Money

b)

Weight Lifting

c)

Family

d)

Video Games

16.

Stable governments were a feature of the Han Dynasty that lasted for about 400 years. What helped the Han Dynasty to be stable?

a)

The use of civil service and Confucianism.

b)

By restricting freedoms

c)

By following strict forms of legalism

d)

By having scholars who protested killed.

17.

In what ways did the Silk Road influence the introduction of cultures between China and western peoples?

a)

brought new foods to both areas

b)

new fabrics to both areas

c)

new religious ideas were shared

d)

all of the above

18.

Identify why Sima Qian was important.

a)

He wrote the entire history of China from mythical time to the reign of Wudi

b)

He invented the Silk Road

c)

He built the Great Wall of China

d)

He started a religion

19.

What teachings did the Han encourage as a way of bringing back the respect of their traditions?

a)

Hinduism

b)

Buddhism

c)

Confucianism

d)

Judaism

20.

How did the invention of paper improve Chinese life?

a)

They no longer had to farm

b)

Paper influenced learning and the arts in china

c)

They no longer used the Silk Road

d)

It created more business for papyrus