Gr6 Exam Smith

Qin Shihuangdi helped unify China by creating a ____________________, or type of money, that everyone had to use.

• currency

• language

• passage

• law

To keep out invaders, Qin used hundreds of thousands of farmers to join together, strengthen, and complete many northern walls that earlier Chinese rulers had constructed. The finished structure was known as

• The Great Wall of China

• The Great Fortress of China

• Tourettes

• Oracle bones

During the Han dynasty, a major advance in technology was that people made ____________________ from hemp or rag pulp.

• paper

• roofs

• armor

• vases

Zhang Qian explored areas west of China, including the area of present-day Kazakhstan, where he saw ____________________ of great size and strength, which Emperor Han Wudi wanted for military purposes.

• horses

• lions

• camels

• elephants

wanted to unify China

• Qin Shihuangdi

• Wo Di

• Zhang

• Quib

__________vast network of trade routes for Chinese goods stretching as far west as Greece and Rome.

• Silk road

• Nile River

• Silk way

• The Great Wall of China

__________reformed and improved government through changing civil service hiring practices.

• Han Wudi

• Qin Shihuangdi

Why do the Chinese call the Huang He “China’s Sorrow”?

• because it is dirty and polluted

• because it is yellow in color

• because it is now dried

  up

• because its flooding has drowned many people

What new technology was developed during the Zhou Dynasty?

• melted bronze to make works of art

• channels to dry flood waters

• new systems to irrigate the land

• silk worms to make clothing

Which answer gives the best explanation of why the Chang Jiang was so important to the people of ancient China?

• It was a key

  waterway for trade and transportation.

• It is the third

  longest river in the world.

• It flows west to

  east across central China.

• It flows through

  canyons and plains to the East China Sea.