Deck 7: China

Question 1

The Qin capital was at ________.

A) Chang'an
B) Luoyang
C) Xianyang
D) Chen

Answer 1

Xianyang

Question 2

Kong Fuzi is best known in the West as ________.

A) Laozi
B) Confucius
C) the Buddhia
D) Xunzi

Answer 2

Confucius

Question 3

The region of Annam is today in ________.

A) China
B) Japan
C) Korea
D) Vietnam

Answer 3

Vietnam

Question 4

Chinese silk first reached Rome in the ________ century B.C.E.

A) sixth
B) tenth
C) fourth
D) first

Question 5

Laozi was the founder of ________.

A) Confucianism
B) Daoism
C) Legalism
D) Buddhism

Question 6

Which of these dynasties ruled China from 581 to 618 C.E.?

A) Tang
B) Han
C) Sui
D) Qin

Question 7

Shi Huangdi was the first ruler of the ________ dynasty.

A) Han
B) Tang
C) Qin
D) Sui

Question 8

The founder of the Tang dynasty was ________.

A) Wang Mang
B) Wudi
C) Shi Huangdi
D) Gaozu

Question 9

Sinicization is the process of ________.

A) adopting Chinese culture
B) Chinese territorial expansion
C) forming the Chinese bureaucracy
D) blending two religions

Question 10

Which of these emperors enshrined Confucianism as a basis for imperial administration?

A) Wang Mang
B) Wudi
C) Wen
D) Gaozu

Question 11

Sima Qian was a Chinese ________.

A) historian
B) philosopher
C) religious leader
D) emperor

Question 12

Which of these was founded by the Toba people?

A) the Han dynasty
B) the Northern Wei dynasty
C) the Tang dynasty
D) the Sui dynasty

Question 13

The Yellow Turbans led a(n)________ in China in the second century C.E.

A) religious pilgrimage
B) literary revival
C) economic boom
D) rebellion

Question 14

The founder of the Han dynasty was ________.

A) Shi Huangdi
B) Liu Bang
C) Wen
D) Wudi

Question 15

Which of these was a prominent Chinese poet?

A) Han Fei Tzu
B) Li Bai
C) Sima Qian
D) Gu Kaizhi

Question 16

Which of these was the philosophy favored by Qin rulers?

A) Daoism
B) Buddhism
C) Confucianism
D) Legalism

Question 17

The Xiongnu were ________.

A) the ancestors of today's Vietnamese
B) Chinese peasants under Qin rule
C) "barbarians" whose homeland was north of China
D) bureaucrats in the Han imperial system

Question 18

Which of these dynasties came to power in 206 B.C.E.?

A) Qin
B) Tang
C) Han
D) Zhou

Question 19

Under the Qin rulers,"commanderies" were ________.

A) administrative districts
B) military leaders
C) institutes of higher education
D) law codes

Question 20

Which of these first spread in China in the Han period?

A) Buddhism
B) Daoism
C) Legalism
D) Confucianism

Question 21

Which of these was most likely to support Chinese expansion?

A) Confucianism
B) Legalism
C) Daoism
D) Buddhism

Question 22

Confucianism emerged and spread in an atmosphere of political ________.

A) turmoil
B) revolution
C) stability
D) innovation

Question 23

Under Qin Shi Huangdi,standardization was a tool of ________.

A) commercial expansion
B) taxation
C) political unification
D) religious conformity

Question 24

The highest value of Confucianism is ________.

A) individual freedom
B) stability
C) spiritual harmony
D) self-expression

Question 25

The Great Wall and the Gansu corridor represent ________ in Chinese relations with other peoples.

A) two different trends
B) the same attitude
C) assimilation
D) aggressive expansion

Question 26

Nara was the capital of what nation?

A) Japan
B) Tibet
C) Vietnam
D) Korea

Question 27

The Qin dynasty oversaw a period of political ________.

A) fragmentation
B) chaos
C) revolution
D) consolidation

Question 28

The Yellow Turbans showed that Daoism ________.

A) was more popular than Confucianism
B) could run counter to central power
C) was essentially opposed to imperial control
D) often came into conflict with Buddhism

Question 29

Concerning the challenges they present for inhabitants,the Yellow and Yangzi river regions are ________.

A) very different
B) identical
C) about the same
D) complete opposites

Question 30

Daoism and Legalism were ________ Confucianism.

A) rejections of
B) variations on
C) alternatives to
D) spiritual branches of

Question 31

The map "Classical China," indicates that between the Qin and Han dynasties the core of imperial China ________.

A) remained roughly the same
B) shifted to the north
C) moved to the Yangzi River
D) was identical

Question 32

Theravada is a form of ________.

A) Buddhism
B) Daoism
C) Confucianism
D) Legalism

Question 33

The Silla dynasty ruled in ________.

A) Japan
B) China
C) Korea
D) Vietnam

Question 34

Legalism ________ imperial power in China.

A) had little relation to
B) strongly supported
C) undermined
D) represented an outright rejection of

Question 35

The Han Dynasty can be said to have ________ Qin political traditions.

A) rejected
B) been the basis of
C) profoundly modified
D) relied on

Question 36

Which of these families dominated Japanese politics for centuries,beginning in 645 C.E.?

A) Yamato
B) Silla
C) Fujiwara
D) Konoe

Question 37

The map "Chinese expansion" shows that ________ fed population expansion in southern China.

A) immigration from Vietnam
B) Xiongnu invasions
C) the population growth along the Yellow River
D) a population boom in the Yangzi valley

Question 38

Han'gul is the Korean ________.

A) version of Confucianism
B) literary style adopted from China
C) writing system
D) capital

Question 39

Mencius represents a(n)________ Confucianism.

A) alternative to
B) reaction to
C) continuation of
D) development of

Question 40

Which of these dynasties is best characterized as short-lived but extremely influential?

A) Qin
B) Han
C) Tang
D) Northern Wei

Question 41

Consider China's relationship with its neighbors.Compare interactions among China and the Xiongnu and the Japanese.

Question 42

Buddhism became popular in China in a period marked by ________.

A) economic collapse
B) invasion
C) political chaos
D) Han stability

Question 43

The processes of assimilation and sinicization tend to ________.

A) cancel each other out
B) produce different results
C) reinforce each other
D) limit China's influence on its neighbors

Question 44

Unlike Confucianism,Legalism ________.

A) supported imperial government
B) viewed society as a series of relationships
C) supported China's legal system
D) held that humans were inherently bad

Question 45

Which of these is a prominent example of Japanese resistance to Chinese influence?

A) Buddhism
B) Shinto
C) the Nihongi
D) Japanese imperial rule

Question 46

Compare the beginnings and growth of Confucianism and Buddhism in China.

Question 47

What do you consider the most important achievement of the Qin dynasty? Why?

Question 48

The Sui and Qin dynasties were very similar in being ________.

A) marked by civil war
B) responsible for massive public works
C) short but stabilizing
D) classical ages

Question 49

Which of these is illustrated by the figure "Asian imperial capitals"?

A) commercial development
B) Chinese expansion
C) assimilation
D) sinicization

Question 50

How was Confucianism utilized by Han and later rulers?

Question 51

The Sui dynasty is best characterized as a period of ________.

A) unification
B) turmoil
C) collapse
D) territorial expansion

Question 52

Unlike the Qin dynasty,the Han dynasty was ________.

A) a period of stability
B) brought China together culturally
C) followed a long period of chaos
D) long-lived

Question 53

Under the Tang dynasty,the Gansu corridor ________.

A) bridged two Chinese territories
B) connected China to the outside world
C) was a frequent route for Xiongnu invasions
D) fell out of use

Question 54

What were the attractions and applications of Confucianism,Daoism,and Legalism? How did these interact in the lives of the Chinese in the Qin,Han,and Tang periods?

Question 55

In the map "Chinese technology," the Tongli and Yongli canals serve to ________.

A) connect China's capitals to the sea
B) bring water far into China's interior
C) connect two seaways
D) connect major rivers to each other