WorksheetsAncient and Early Imperial China Test Review
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 8mins
Daoism; Simple life, turn to nature for happiness
Laozi
Confucianism; Golden Rule, individual must do good for the world to be happy
Confucius
Legalism; People are evil by default, strict laws and strict punishments are needed for a good world
Han Fei Zi
Why does this picture represent the Mandate of Heaven?
The temple above represents Heaven where the gods are, and the rays of light shining on the emperor represent him being chosen by those gods.
The emperor is a light bender and is bending light to create a mirage of a temple in the sky above him.
The building on the cloud represents aliens and the lights are their tractor beam picking up an unsuspecting ancient Chinese person.
The dude is obviously hallucinating from dehydration and believes a sky castle is about to pour water from above for him to drink.
True or False:
Filial Piety meant children of Ancient China didn’t have to listen to their parents.
True: Kids in Ancient China were a bunch of stinkers
False: Filial Piety meant kids could NEVER disrespect their parents.
Millet Grain was a crop Ancient Chinese farmers grew. It needed to grow in ankle deep water. Is the flooding of the Huang He aka Yellow River positive in this case?
Yes: the floods are what brought the ankle deep water.
No: the Ancient Chinese water fairies would come in and sprinkle water around the millet grain until it was ankle deep.
What was the main reason traders preferred the Silk Road over other trade routes?
It was the shortest.
You got free silk while on the trip.
All the cool kids took the Silk Road.
It was the most scenic trade route.
Which Emperor started the testing for government jobs trend?
Qin Shihuangdi
Han Wudi
True or false:
The achievement most important to trade in Ancient China was silk.
True: the rest of the world loved silk so much they would trade gold for it.
False: the rest of the world could use it for toilet paper for all they cared.
Under the Mandate of Heaven, emperors would be blamed if a natural disaster happened because people thought the gods controlled the weather, and that the gods had chosen the emperor.
Was this dangerous to Zhou rulers?
Yes: the people of Ancient China would overthrow the emperor because of these things.
No: Ancient Chinese people were too lazy to take their anger out on the emperor.
Which river did the first Ancient Chinese civilization begin near?
Huang He (Yellow River)
Bing Cha Ling
Chang Jiang
Xi jinping (Winnie the Pooh lookin head )
True or false:
Building the Great Wall of China was easy.
True: one emperor built all of it before he died.
False: it took hundreds of years to bulls.
How did Emperor Qin enforce his ideas of legalism?
By letting his people have fun
By establishing the same system of writing, money and laws.
By dancing the hokey pokey.
By taking a fat L in a battle royale. I mean, 99th place? Come on.
Remember how Ashoka from Ancient India sent missionaries out to spread Buddhism? Well guess a place where they went to! That’s right, ANCIENT CHINA!!!!!!!111!!1!!!1!!
Ashoka followed Buddhism because it promotes peace and non-violence.
Other than Ashoka’s missionaries, how else might Buddhism have spread into Ancient China?
Carrier pigeons; squawk.
The Silk Road; CULTURAL DIFFUSION FTW!!!!
Time travel; no explanation, just time travel.
Famous actors would talk about Buddhism in Ancient China like they talk about ice cream before their movie comes out.
John Xina or Zhang Xina?
John Xina
Zhang Xina
Bing Chilling
