China Test Study Guide

Please be able to discuss the definition, significance, and anything else pertaining to these words from your readings, notes, and textbook…complete the chart on the reverse side for credit…

Accomplishments from ALL of the dynasties

Ban Zhao

Buddhism in China

Characteristics of the dynasties

China’s economy

Chinese civilizations compared to Indian civilizations

Chinese civilization compared to Egypt and Mesopotamia

Chronology in ancient China

Chronology of the dynasties

Civil Service

Class System in China

Confucianism

Cultural Diffusion in China

Dynastic Cycle

Daoism/ Taoism

Differences between the dynasties

Differences between Peasants and Nobles

Dynasty

Feudalism

Geographic Features of China

Great Wall of China

Han Dynasty and Confucianism

I Ching

Laozi

Legalism

Lessons for Women

Liu Bang

Loess

Mandate of Heaven/ “Son of Heaven”

Map skills (reading a map or key)

Oracle Bones

Pictograms

Qin Shi Huangdi

Qin Dynasty and Legalism

Sequencing of the Dynasties

Silk Roads

Sun Tzu

The Art of War

Non-Content Vocabulary: dominant, social stratification, decline, literacy, flexible, urban, extensive, nomadic, disruption, sanctioned, doctrines, hierarchy, reciprocal, aristocrats, attributed, solemnity

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