Ancient China

What term means to ban dangerous or offensive ideas, or remove material from published works or prevent its publication?

• Censor

• Civil Service

• Filial Piety

• Legalism

What is an ancient Chinese philosophy where a strong leader and a strong legal system will create social order?

• Censor

• Civil Service

• Filial Piety

• Legalism

What do you call people who work for a government?

• Censor

• Civil Service

• Filial Piety

• Legalism

What term means devotion of child to their parents in Confucianism?

• Censor

• Civil Service

• Filial Piety

• Legalism

What is animal bones or shells carved with written characters that was used to predict the future?

• Loess

• Mandate of Heaven

• Oracle Bones

• Pictograph

What is the term that means a picture that represents a word or idea?

• Loess

• Mandate of Heaven

• Oracle Bones

• Pictograph

What is a dustlike material that can form soil?

• Loess

• Mandate of Heaven

• Oracle Bones

• Pictograph

What is the term that mean the presumed right to rule given to a dynasty by heaven?

• Loess

• Mandate of Heaven

• Oracle Bones

• Pictograph

What benefit did a standardized currency bring to China?

• It made it easier to trade anywhere in the empire.

• It reduced the economic power of warlords.

• It increased wealth for all citizens.

• It allowed the government to collect taxes.

Among the major achievements of the Shang were the development of a written language

• building of the Great Wall.

• introduction of metal coins.

• invention of the seismometer.

• development of bronze metalworking.