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| 7137091906 | Barbarians | The Greeks first used the term "barbarous" ti designate foreign and uncivilized peoples, those whose languages sounded to Greek ears like the sound bar-bar, rather than like Greek. Today, barbarian continues to refer to persons who are considered foreign and uncivilized, and may, in the extreme, also refer to people who violent, uncontrolled, and perhaps, uncontrollable | 0 | |
| 7137097668 | Legalism | A school of Chinese philosophy that came into prominence during the period of the Warring States and had great influence on the policies of the Qin dynasty. Legalist took a pessimistic view of human nature and believed that social harmony could be attained only through strong government control and the imposition of strict laws, enforced absolutely | 1 | |
| 7137102761 | Sinicization | The adoption and absorption by foreign peoples of Chinese language, customs, and culture | 2 | |
| 7137104459 | Assimilation | The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society, and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it | 3 | |
| 7657050089 | Confucius: | lived during the period of the Warring States | 4 | |
| 7657050090 | Qin dynasty administration was characterized by: | formalized, written rules | 5 | |
| 7657050091 | Daoism: | stresses a closeness to the natural world | 6 | |
| 7657050092 | Which ideology had the most influence on the Qin dynasty? | Legalism | 7 | |
| 7657050093 | The Zhou dynasty: | disintegrated, leading to the Warring States period | 8 | |
| 7657050094 | Which dynasty completed the construction of the 1500-mile Great Wall of China? | Qin | 9 | |
| 7657050095 | The Warring States period: | led to the rule of the Qin dynasty | 10 | |
| 7657050096 | Of the following, which was NOT one of the five texts canonized by Confucius? | The Good Life | 11 | |
| 7670574665 | Regarding economic policy of the Han empire, it is true that: | Confucians opposed military expansion in part because it was so costly | 12 | |
| 7670574666 | The fall of the Qin dynasty was hastened most by: | the hostility of the peasantry | 13 | |
| 7670574667 | Chinese silk reached Rome via the first silk route in: | 57 B.C.E. | 14 | |
| 7670574668 | The Mandate of Heaven: | blessed moral rulers | 15 | |
| 7670574669 | Over the course of the Han dynasty, this group rose to the top of the social and political hierarchy: | scholars | 16 | |
| 7670574670 | Regarding military policy of the Han empire, it is true that: | nearly all able-bodied men had to serve in the military | 17 | |
| 7670574671 | Between the first recorded census of 2 C.E. and the second extant census of 140 C.E., the population of China: | dropped sharply to 48 million people | 18 | |
| 7696790726 | The Tang dynasty: | presided during a major flowering of Chinese poetry | 19 | |
| 7696790727 | Buddhism had a divisive effect on China. | False | 20 | |
| 7696790728 | The Sui dynasty: | initially had the loyalty of peasant farmers | 21 | |
| 7696790729 | Buddhism in China: | eventually gained millions of followers | 22 | |
| 7696790730 | The Sui dynasty restored the economic productivity of China. | True | 23 | |
| 7696790731 | The Grand Canal, completed during the Sui dynasty, linked which of the following? | the Yangzi and the Yellow River systems | 24 | |
| 7696790732 | After the fall of the Han dynasty, China was divided into three states. | True | 25 | |
| 7696790733 | The "three kingdoms and six dynasties" period: | managed to maintain the dominant culture and ethics of earlier times | 26 | |
| 7696790734 | The Tang dynasty rejected the policies of the Sui. | False | 27 | |
| 7696790735 | Sima Qian: | wrote a nearly complete history of China up to his own time | 28 | |
| 7731824726 | Neither the Roman Empire nor the Chinese Empire put much effort into public works projects. | False | 29 | |
| 7731824727 | The seventeen-point program adopted by Japan: | included reverence for Buddhism | 30 | |
| 7731824728 | Korea broke free from direct Chinese control: | following the collapse of the Han dynasty in 220 C.E. | 31 | |
| 7731824729 | China and Rome were similar in all of the following ways, except for: | influence on neighbors | 32 | |
| 7731824730 | In which of the following are the dynasties arranged in proper chronological order? | Qin, Han, Sui, and Tang | 33 | |
| 7731824731 | Vietnam: | had a love/hate relationship with China | 34 | |
| 7731824732 | Japan | accepted the cultural hegemony of China | 35 | |
| 7731824733 | The Chinese had a major influence on Korea. | True | 36 | |
| 7731824734 | China and Rome were different in all of the following ways, except for: | gender relationships | 37 |
