Classical China

Question 1

classical china

Answer 1

• 600 BCE - 600 CE

Question 2

notes

Answer 2

• rise and fall of empires
• expanding trade networks
• religion

Question 3

era of warring states

Answer 3

• jin dynasty starts (no powerful government, no central authority)
• feudalism
• after the fall of the Zhou

Question 4

zhou dynasty

Answer 4

• yangtze to hunaghe river
• north: wheat
• south: rice
• mandate of heaven
• human sacrifices lessened (secular way of thinking)
• progress (ox drawn plow, collars for horses, water mills, bureaucracy)
• unify with common language (cultural unity)
• downfall is regional rulers making armies
• emperor is just a figurehead
• religious to secular

Question 5

Qin Shi Huang

Answer 5

• took control
• brutal ruler
• centralized government
• extended territory and political control
• Great Wall started
• national census
• standardized weights, coingage, and measures
• uniform script
• irrigation projects
• burnt books (attack on intellectual) (thinking was subversive to autocratic rule)
• taxes, forced labor
• 210 BCE revolt began and new dynasty

Question 6

Han dynasty

Answer 6

• around 202 BCE
• 3rd dynasty
• centralized control
• reduced brutal regression
• fell to Hun dynasty

Question 7

Wudi

Answer 7

• inforced peace
• improved bureaucracy
• confusionism

Question 8

one of the goals of the Zhou dynasty was to unify the people of China through a common _______

Answer 8

• language

Question 9

the downfall of the Zhou dynasty can be attributed to _______

Answer 9

• a lack of central authority

- the formation of regional armies

Question 10

the zhou dynasty in classical China stressed _______

Answer 10

• the mandate of heaven

Question 11

Shi Huangdi burned books because he believed that __________

Answer 11

• thinking was subversive to autocratic rule

Question 12

under the _______ Dynasty, there were really no powerful governments

Answer 12

• chin

Question 13

some of the changes in farming that took place under the Zhou Dynasty in China included ______ grown in the North

Answer 13

• wheat

Question 14

the problem with feudalism in the Zhou dynasty can best be characterized as _________

Answer 14

• creating vulnerability in the central power structure, increasing the risk of regional disloyalty

Question 15

one of the ways in which the Zhou tried to unify people in classical China was through ________

Answer 15

• culture

Question 16

the shift in thinking during the Zhou Dynasty in China can be described as _____

Answer 16

• religious to secular

Question 17

the agricultural power structure in Classical China can best be described as __________

Answer 17

• feudalism