Wld. Hist. 9
1. What is filial piety?
… respect for parents and ancestors
2. What is a bureaucracy?
… a trained civil service who run the government
3. What does Yin represent and what does Yang represent?
… Yin= cold, dark, soft, mysterious
Yang= warm, bright, hard, clear
4. What does the name Shi Huangdi mean?
… “First Emperor”
5. Define autocracy.
… a gov’t that has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner
6. What dynasty began in 202 B.C.?
… Han Dynasty
7. What is a centralized government?
… a central authority controls the running of the state
8. Why was Wudi called the “Martial Emperor?”
… He adopted the policy of expanding the Chinese empire through war.
9. Besides taxes, what else did peasants owe the government?
… a month’s worth of labor or military service every year.
10. When was paper invented?
… A.D. 105 (used silk or bark or bone…)
11. What is a monopoly?
… a group or business has exclusive control over the production/
distribution of a good
12. Define assimilation.
… the process of making conquered peoples [or immigrants] part of the
(Chinese) culture
13. What happened to the Han Dynasty by 220 A.D.?
… disintegrated into three rival kingdoms