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China 7.2
Lesson #2 “China’s First Civilizations”
Section #1 Life in Ancient China
Question # 1
What do you call a group of people that share a similar position in society?
Answer: A social class
Question # 2
What are the three levels main parts of China’s social class system?
Answer: Landowning aristocratsPeasant farmersmerchants
Question # 3
Approximately what percent of people were farmers in Ancient China?
Answer: About 90% (9 out of 10)
Question # 4
What were three of China’s main crops?
Answer: Wheat, rice and millet
Question # 5
Why did aristocrat landowners in China own LESS land than their fathers and grandfathers?
Answer: Each generation would divide the land into parts for their sons to own.
Question # 6
Why did farmers have to give part of their crops to the aristocrats?
Answer: The aristocrats owned the land that the farmers grew the crops on.
Question # 7
What occupations made up the “merchant” class in China’s society?
Answer: Shopkeepers, traders and bankers
Question # 8
Why did people have large families in China?
Answer: They needed many people to work on the farms.
Question # 9
What did farmers do in order to be able to use the land on the mountainside for farming?
Answer: Built terraces
Question # 10
What do you call the flat areas cut into the sides of mountains (like steps) that help keep the soil from eroding?
Answer: terraces
Question # 11
How else did terraces help farmers?
Answer: The farmers used the water from the terraces to water the crops.
Question # 12
Who was valued more in Chinese society, men or women?
Answer: men
Question #13
What does the term filial piety mean?
Answer: Children had to respect their parents and older relatives and do what the head of the family wanted.
Question # 14
Who was the head of the family in China?
Answer: The oldest male
Question #15
Who would take over if the head of the family passed on?
Answer: The next oldest male
Section #2 Chinese Thinkers
Question #16
What event caused the Chinese people to seek ways to make their society more peaceful?
Answer:The Period of the Warring States
Question # 17
What were the 3 major theories that Chinese thinkers developed in order to create a peaceful society?
Answer:Who was China’s first great thinker and teacher?
Question #18
This philosophy taught that all men with a talent for governing should take part in government.
Answer:Confucianism
Question #19
Which Chinese philosophy believed that people should put the needs of their family and community first?
Answer:Confucianism
Question #20
Which philosophy believed that people should give up worldly desires in favor of nature and the Dao?
Answer:Daoism
Question #21
Which Chinese philosophy believed that society needed a system of harsh and strict punishment?
Answer:Legalism
Question #22
What is another name for Daoism?
Answer:Taoism
Question #23
Which Chinese philosophy was developed by Laozi?
Answer:Daoism
Question # 24
Which Chinese philosophy was developed based on the teachings of Hanfeizi?
Answer:Legalism
Question #25
Which Chinese philosophy taught that humans were naturally evil.
Answer:Legalism
Question #26
Which Chinese philosophy did the aristocrats like the best?
Answer:Legalism
Question #27
Why did aristocrats like Legalism?
Answer:It favored using force and power and did not expect rulers to show kindness or understanding.
Question # 28
What are the three major theories about how to create a more peaceful society in China?
Answer:Confucianism, Daoism and Legalism.