Chapter 8: China Review

Under the _______ China was unified, a network of roads and canals was built, and the written language was standardized.

• Qin Dynasty

• Great Wall

• Shi Huangdi

The ______, a barrier that linked earlier walls across China's norther frontier, was built to stop the nomads from invading China.

• Qin Dynasty

• Great Wall

• Shi Huangdi

______ is the practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain.

• seismograph

• acupuncture

• sundial

Under Emperor ______, Confucianism became China's official government policy.

• Wudi

• Liu Bang

Shi Huangdi ordered the destruction of all the writings that did not agree with Legalism.

• True

• False

This 4,000-mile-long network of routes stretched westward from China across Asia's deserts and mountain ranges, through the Middle East, until it reached the Mediterranean Sea.

• silk

• Silk Road

• diffusion

_______ was born peasant, but he became emperor after his army won control of China after the fall of the Qin dynasty.

• Wudi

• Liu Bang

The Great Wall of China was a massive building project undertaken under Shi Huangdi's rule that required the labor of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and workers.

• True

• False

King Ying Zheng gave himself the title _______, which means first emperor.

• Qin Dynasty

• Great Wall

• Shi Huangdi

Buddhism spread from India o China along the

• difussion

• Silk Road