06. China

What happened in China after the fall of the Han Dynasty?

• China began a golden age that lasted 300 years.

• China entered a period of war and disunity that lasted hundreds of years.

• The Ming Dynasty immediately took over.

• The Han has not yet fallen, it continues to this day.

Who reunified China in the year 581?

• Emperor Wendi

• Liu Bu

• Mao Zedong

• Emperor Taizong

How did Emperor Wen try to bring unity to China?

• Make reforms to improve the government.

• Reinstituting the Civil Service Exam.

• Begin public works projects.

• All of these

What two projects did Yangdi oversee?

• Expanding the Great Wall and building a highway system

• Building the Grand Canal and making a postal service

• Making a new law code and creating a national forest system

• Expanding the Great Wall and building the Grand Canal

What feature links the Yangtze and Yellow rivers?

• The Great Wall

• The River of Dreams

• The Grand Canal

• The Pont du Gard

The Grand Canal is actually a minor waterway that only required a few hundred thousand people to build.

• True

• False

Yangdi’s public works projects placed a huge amount of stress on the Chinese people and he was eventually overthrown.

• True

• False

What Dynasty did Wendi begin?

• Han

• Zhou

• Sui

• Ming

What dynasty followed the Sui?

• Tang

• Zhou

• Yang

• Xia

Where was the capital of the Tang Dynasty?

• Shanghai

• Chang’an

• Szechuan

• Canton