Transcript Economic Silk Road

The Golden Age of the
Han
(206 B.C.E. – 220 C.E.)
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1. The Han power would usher
power
trade
in an age of trade, ideas,
or isolatio
ideas economic prosperity
and economic prosperity
EconomicIntellectual
Political
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2. What two policies helped
Han China become powerful?
A. Expansionism
trade
and trade
B. Isolation and self-sufficiency
PIRATES:Political
Economic
4. The Han
emperors
emperors
increased
orincreased
empire their empire.
decreased
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ES:
5. The Han culture was
culture or
spread across
Manchuria,
was not
Korea, North Vietnam, Tibet,
and Central Asia.
Social
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6.
trade was the
War
trade
or & most important
biggest
source
of income for the
income
Han.
Economic
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7. The Qin’s Great Wall was
expanded
the Han
Greatby
Wall
protect
emperors
to protect
was
expanded
trad
settlers & traders
ersfrom
the
nomadic ____________
a.
Bedouins
b. Huns
c. Mongols
d. Romans
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ical ogical mic
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8. the han’s Great Wall
extended
6,700
miles, the
Great
Wall
same distance as it is from
which
two
a.
London
and cities?
Rome
b. NYC and LA
c. NYC and Tokyo
d. Tokyo and Athens
PIRATES:
Technological
9. the han Dynasty’s Great
Wall protected
Greatand
Wall
protected
isolated
the
or did not
isolate
Chinese
empire and its
people.
Technol
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Political
ogical
10. Which 4,000 mile trade
trade
route ran parallel to the
route
Great Wall
Great Wall?
A.
B.
C.
D.
The Silk
Silk Road
The
Road
The
Northwest Passage
The Trans-Atlantic Route
The Tran-Siberian Railroad
Technol Econo
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ogical mic
11. The trade route linked
trade
China to the ___________.
route
a.
b.
c.
d.
north
south
east
west
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Economic
12. What did the guards use to
signal
signal danger to the
travelers?
A. fire
B. arrows
C. messengers
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Intellectual
13. China had a monopoly on
monopoly
its __________.
a.
b.
c.
d.
jade
silk
porcelain
food
Economic
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14. True
? Silk is
or False
lightweight, beautiful,
and retains warmth.
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15. Chinese merchants kept
merchants price
the price of silk
low
artificially
high to
monopoly
or
maintain its silk monopoly
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Economic
Social
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16. Chinese emperors made it a
emperors law crime
or
crime to divulge (share)
product
information on the
production of silk.
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Economic
Political
17. Exporting silk worm eggs
Exporting
would get you
exiledexecuted
or
executed.
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Political
Economic
18. Trade along the Silk Road
brought China new products
Trade
Silk
from the _________ such as
Road
grapes, figs, cucumbers,
walnuts, as well as furs from
Central Asia, muslin from India,
north from Rome.
&A.glass
B. south
c. east
d. west
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Economic
19. Traders, travelers, and
Traders
missionaries
Traders
missionaries brought new
brought new
ideas
into
China
including
a.
Hinduism
ideas
b. Islam
c. Buddhism
d. Christianity
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Economic
Social
S:
20. Buddhism offered the
Chinese escape from
Buddhism
suffering for all the
following reasons except
A. good work
B. prayer
C. caste system
D. devotion
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Religious
21. In China, Buddhism offered
Buddhism
hope of eternal
life or
happiness.
PIRATES:
Religious
22. True
In China,
Buddha
or
Buddha is seen as a
god
fals
compassionate god.
e?
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Religious
23. A(n)
oasis was the
last
refuge
river
or before
travelers entered the
Takla Makan desert.
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24. The Takla Makan desert is
more dangerous than
less
any other desert.
or
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25. To insure their safe
journey travelers paid
artists
local
artists to paint
paint
_________
in the rocks.
A.
forts
B.Buddhist
Buddhistshrines
shrines
C. images of Ra
D. images of Hindu gods
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Religious
Artistic
26. True
The
travelers have their
or
pictures painted in the
gods
pictures
fals shrines
shrines as a reminder to
painted
e?
the gods of the help they
would need in the next few
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Artistic
weeks.
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27. As a result of the Great
Wall and the Silk Road
Silk Roa
Great
China’s economy prospered
prospered
or
Wall
& it
declined
withdrew
expanded
or
expanded its
Great
empire
empire north and west of
Wall
the Politic
Great
Wall.
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Economi
Technol
S:
al
ogical
c
28. Traders, travelers,
Trad
merchants,merch
& missionaries
Tra
mission
ers
spread goods
& ideas
from
ders
ants
aries
and
into
goods
& China. This is an
example
of
ideas
A.
isolationism
B. expansionism
C. cultural diffusion
D. greed
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Religi Econo Soci
ous
mic
al
29. True
The effects
Silk
or
of the Silk Road still impact
Road
false
China today.
?
Economic
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I. Geography
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II. Political
A. The most famous Han emperor was
Wudi.
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II. Political
A. The most famous Han emperor was
Wudi.
1. Wudi used the civil service
system
a) It was based on what you
knew (merit) not who you
knew.
b) Only those who passed the
civil service test were given
the job.
III. Technological
A. Added canals and roads
IV. Economics
A. New canals and roads helped
movement of goods
B. Storage areas for grain set up
throughout empire and when it
became scarce the government
would sell it
IV. Economics
C. Wudi created a monopoly on iron and
salt which gave the government an
income besides taxes
IV. Economics
D. The Silk Road
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V. Artistic
A. Jade
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V. Artistic
B. earthenware
Causes of the decline of the Han
empire
unable
control
warlords
Causes of the decline of the Han
empire
neglect
commerce
increased
oppressed
peasants
revolt
Causes of the decline of the Han
empire
Invaders
Works cited
Art
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