Social Studies 22

1. What was the purpose of building the Great Wall?

To keep invaders out

To provide employment

To reward followers with land

To punish critics of the emperor

2. Which Chinese teaching most influenced Qin Shihuangdi's style of rule?

Daoism

Legalism

Buddhism

Confucianism

3. Why did many people sent to work on the Great Wall not return home?

They became wandering nomads

They ran away to other countries

They died under harsh conditions

They decided to live near the wall

4. Why did the Emperor of Qin order all Conducian books brought to the capital?

So he could destroy them

So he could learn from them

So he could start a new library

So he could have them translated

5. To large extent, the Great Wall was built by...

Forced labor

Foreign workers

Skilled stonemasons

Close friends of the emperor

6. Qin Shihuangdi, the first emperor of China, began life as...

An invader from Central Asia

A prince of a Chinese state

A member of the Zhou dynasty

A farmer in the North China Plain

7. What happened after the Qin emperor's death?

Tight military control

Rebellions and civil war

Peaceful easing of policies

Worship of the emperor as a god

8. In which year would a visitor to China have found a unified Chinese state under the rule of its first emperor?

1250 B.C.E.

540 B.C.E.

220 B.C.E.

70 B.C.E.

9. What was one difference between fuedalism and the Emperor of Qin's system of government?

Under fuedalism, power was held locally; the Emperor of Qin held all power

Under fuedalism, lords met with the king; the Emperor of Qin did not have meetings

Under fuedalism, leadership came from few men; the Emperor of Qin had many leaders

Under fuedalism, peasants chose their lords; the Emperor of Qin chose their lords for them

10. Under Qin rule, what would happen if a rich person and a poor person commited the same crime?

The rich person would pay a larger fine

The two would have to exchange places

The two would suffer the same punishment

Only the poor person would be punished

11. This scene from an ancient scroll shows something being don to scholars. Why did this happen?

The soldiers did not know how to read

The royal family had to pick a teacher

The philosophers wanted to get back to nature

The emperor hoped to stop criticism of the government

12. Why did later Chinese historians have very different opinions of the Emperor of Qin?

Little is known about him

His tomb could not be found

He acted both wisely and cruelly

His advisers made most decisions

13. What actions related to the areas listed below did the emperor take to help unify China?

Laws

Money

Weights and measures

Writing

He set up schools where they were taught

He took ideas about them from other countries

He let officials adjust them to meet local needs

He standardized practices that had differed in all parts of the country

14. Which group most likely had the best life under the Emperor of Qin's rule?

Artists

Scholars

Peasants

Merchants

15. Where did archeologists find a life-sized army made of terra-cotta, a kind of clay?

In the Great Wall

Next to the royal palace

Along the southern border

Inside the emperor's tomb