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| 7618344524 | Han empire social structure | emperor state officials pesants artisans/merchants soldiers slaves | 0 | |
| 7618352524 | emperor | had divine authority and was considered to be the link between heaven and earth | 1 | |
| 7618358939 | peasants | paid part of their yearly crops to the government and donated 1 month's worth of labor | 2 | |
| 7618372026 | where did the 1 months worth of labor go to | the construction of roads, canals, and irrigation ditches and the expansion of the Great Wall | 3 | |
| 7618441313 | what did the emperor follow | the mandate from heaven | 4 | |
| 7618444986 | advisors | confucian scholars/government officials | 5 | |
| 7618448115 | commandaries | 40 administrative units each with a military and a civil administrator and and inspector for the emperor | 6 | |
| 7618455527 | capital | Ch'ang-an | 7 | |
| 7618457950 | Civil Service Exams | to qualify for government jobs (had to pay for the exams- excluding all but wealthy classes) | 8 | |
| 7618465968 | emperor Wudi | 141-87 BCE (ruled for 54 years) | 9 | |
| 7618476054 | what did emperor Wudi establish | an elite military to teach confucianism | 10 | |
| 7618481547 | how did he expand the empire | he expanded the empire though war (doubled the size) | 11 | |
| 7618486954 | which 3 places did he colonize | Manchuria, Korea, and Vietnam | 12 | |
| 7618499315 | Who did they fight under emperor Wudi | fought the Xiognu who were raiding farmlands on the border | 13 | |
| 7618529390 | what did people write on before the invention of paper | pottery, bones, stone, silk, wood, and bamboo | 14 | |
| 7618534175 | who invented paper and how | Han by using the hemp plant which was later made stronger by using mulberry bark | 15 | |
| 7618552958 | where did the use of paper first spread | korea and japan then to Arab by the 700s then to europe | 16 | |
| 7618568971 | how was a family land divided | equally among the male heirs | 17 | |
| 7618573782 | when did the silk roads begin | during the Han dynasty in 57 BCE | 18 | |
| 7618575999 | what are the silk roads | long distance trade route connecting China and Rome | 19 | |
| 7618586663 | what were some items that were traded on the silk roads | silk, spices, jewels, and gold objects along with culture, ideas, and diseases | 20 | |
| 7618595760 | how did people travel on the silk roads | caravan (using camels) | 21 | |
| 7618599419 | who were the middlemen | nomads from central asia | 22 | |
| 7618605387 | what did the Han government have monopolies in | salt and iron, minting coins and alcohol and for a long time silk mills | 23 | |
| 7618613986 | when did buddhism first enter | in china durin ghee Han dynasty thought the silk roads | 24 | |
| 7618620227 | where was the birthplace of buddhism | india | 25 | |
| 7618626777 | what did the buddhist religion consist of | compassion and religion | 26 | |
| 7618644494 | what two other forms did buddhism mix very well with | confucianism and daoism | 27 | |
| 7618648835 | what did women adhere to | confucian ideology: serving the family, particularly the males in the family | 28 | |
| 7618655953 | what were some roles upper class women were able to become | buddhist or daoist nuns -live apart from their families, small shop owners, medical practitioners | 29 | |
| 7618679532 | who seized power from the Liu family | Wang Mang (9-23 CE) | 30 | |
| 7618685903 | what caused chaos in the han dynasty | attempted reforms of land ownership | 31 | |
| 7618687988 | what led to conscription | the waging war on the edges of the empire | 32 | |
| 7618695703 | what were some contributions to the collapse of the han empire | taxes, famines ,floods and inflation which led to peasant uprisings | 33 | |
| 7618708749 | what are the dates on the later Han period | 23-220 CE | 34 | |
| 7618715295 | alliances with whom were made along the great wall | barbarians | 35 | |
| 7618720017 | what was give to border tribes so they would invade | silk cloth | 36 | |
| 7618722642 | what is assimilation | adoption/ absorption of chinese language, customs and cultures by foreign groups | 37 | |
| 7618775355 | what were the dates of the peasant revolt | 184 CE (yellow turban rebellion) | 38 | |
| 7618780557 | describe the Yellow Turban Rebellion | started by a taoist faith healer and it lasted 2 decades; huge armies were conscripted but at a huge cost | 39 | |
| 7618791608 | why was there no clear lines of succession | the last emperor abdicated | 40 | |
| 7618797992 | how long was china divide into 3 regional states | 400 years | 41 | |
| 7618812346 | what remained in the 3 regions states | the underlying unity endured (language, culture) | 42 | |
| 7618814593 | Sui dynasty dates | 581- 618 | 43 | |
| 7618820722 | what did the sui dynasty do for china | it reunified it after 400 years of fragmentation | 44 | |
| 7618824764 | what did the Sui dynasty complete | the grand canal from the north to the south | 45 | |
| 7618827735 | what rivers did the grand canal connect | Huang He (yellow river) to the Yangtze | 46 | |
| 7618831499 | why did the sui dynasty fall | couldn't afford to sustain the military | 47 | |
| 7618848525 | what dyansty did the tang dynasty follow | the Sui | 48 | |
| 7618859705 | where did the Tang extend their empire to | outer china- Mongolia;central asia to the frontier of iran; north vietnam and korea | 49 | |
| 7618865532 | what did the tang dynasty invent | the 1st block printing press which spread the buddhist teachings | 50 | |
| 7618870772 | what did japan accept | cultural hegemony | 51 | |
| 7618884201 | what did the chinese introduce to japan | rice, bronze, iron, written script, buddhism | 52 |
