1. The Golden Age of the Han (206 B.C.E. – 220 C.E.)
You will need your 5-G note sheet
This begins with a video.
Take three minutes to read through the questions.
Listen to the video and circle the correct answer.
When the video is over you will have five minutes to decide which of the PIRATES themes fit the sentence (may be more than one).

2. The Silk Road (7:05)

3. 1. The Han power would usher in an age of trade, ideas, and economic prosperity
or isolation.
PIRATES:
Political
Economic
Intellectual

4. 2. What two policies helped Han China become powerful?
Expansionism and trade
Isolation and self-sufficiency
Expansionism
trade
PIRATES:
Political
Economic

5. 4. The Han emperors increased their empire.
or decreased
empire
PIRATES:
Political

6. 5. The Han culture was spread across
5. The Han culture was spread across Manchuria, Korea, North Vietnam, Tibet, and Central Asia.
culture
or was not
PIRATES:
Social

7. 6. trade was the biggest & most important source of income for the Han.
War or
trade
income
PIRATES:
Economic

8. Great Wall was expanded emperors protect traders
7. The Qin’s Great Wall was expanded by the Han emperors to protect settlers & traders from the nomadic ____________
Great Wall was expanded
emperors
protect
traders
Bedouins
Huns
Mongols
Romans
PIRATES:
Political
Technological
Economic

9. 8. The Han’s Great Wall extended 6,700 miles, the same distance as it is from which two cities?
London and Rome
NYC and LA
NYC and Tokyo
Tokyo and Athens
PIRATES:
Technological

10. 9. The Han Dynasty’s Great Wall protected and isolated the Chinese empire and its people.
or did not isolate
PIRATES:
Political
Technological

11. 10. Which 4,000 mile trade route ran parallel to the Great Wall?
The Silk Road
The Silk Road
The Northwest Passage
The Trans-Atlantic Route
The Tran-Siberian Railroad
PIRATES:
Technological
Economic

12. 11. The trade route linked China to the ___________.
north
south
east
west
PIRATES:
Economic

13. 12. What did the guards use to signal danger to the travelers?
fire
arrows
messengers
PIRATES:
Intellectual

14. 13. China had a monopoly on its __________.
jade
silk
porcelain
food
PIRATES:
Economic

15. 14. True ? Silk is lightweight, beautiful, and retains warmth.
or False

16. 15. Chinese merchants kept the price of silk artificially high to maintain its silk monopoly
low or
monopoly
PIRATES:
Economic
Social

17. 16. Chinese emperors made it a crime to divulge (share) information on the production of silk.
law or
crime
production
PIRATES:
Political
Economic

18. 17. Exporting silk worm eggs would get you executed.
exiled or
executed
PIRATES:
Political
Economic

19. 18. Trade along the Silk Road brought China new products from the _________ such as grapes, figs, cucumbers, walnuts, as well as furs from Central Asia, muslin from India, & glass from Rome.
Trade
Silk Road
north
south
east
west
PIRATES:
Economic

20. 19. Traders, travelers, and missionaries brought new ideas into China including
Traders brought new
ideas
Traders
missionaries
Hinduism
Islam
Buddhism
Christianity
Buddhism
PIRATES:
Religious
Economic
Social

21. 20. Buddhism offered the Chinese escape from suffering for all the following reasons except
good work
prayer
caste system
devotion
PIRATES:
Religious

22. 21. In China, Buddhism offered hope of eternal happiness.
life or
PIRATES:
Religious

23. 22. True In China, Buddha is seen as a compassionate god.
or false?
Buddha
god
PIRATES:
Religious

24. 23. A(n) oasis was the last refuge before travelers entered the Takla Makan desert.
river or

25. 24. The Takla Makan desert is more dangerous than any other desert.
less or

26. 25. To insure their safe journey travelers paid local artists to paint _________ in the rocks.
forts
Buddhist shrines
images of Ra
images of Hindu gods
Buddhist shrines
PIRATES:
Religious
Artistic

27. 26. True The travelers have their pictures painted in the shrines as a reminder to the gods of the help they would need in the next few weeks.
pictures
painted
or false?
shrines
gods
PIRATES:
Religious
Artistic

28. 27. As a result of the Great Wall and the Silk Road China’s economy prospered & it expanded its empire north and west of the Great Wall.
Great Wall
Silk Road
prospered
or declined
withdrew or
expanded empire
Great Wall
PIRATES:
Political
Technological
Economic

29. 28. Traders, travelers, merchants, & missionaries spread goods & ideas from and into China. This is an example of
Traders
Traders
merchants
missionaries
spread goods & ideas
isolationism
expansionism
cultural diffusion
greed
cultural diffusion
PIRATES:
Religious
Economic
Social

30. 29. True The effects of the Silk Road still impact China today.
or false?
Silk Road
PIRATES:
Economic

31. I. Geography

32. II. Political The most famous Han emperor was Wudi.

33. II. Political The most famous Han emperor was Wudi.
Wudi used the civil service system
It was based on what you knew (merit) not who you knew.
Only those who passed the civil service test were given the job.

34. III. Technological
Added canals and roads

35. IV. Economics New canals and roads helped movement of goods
Storage areas for grain set up throughout empire and when it became scarce the government would sell it

36. IV. Economics
C. Wudi created a monopoly on iron and salt which gave the government an income besides taxes

37. IV. Economics The Silk Road

38. V. Artistic
Jade

39. V. Artistic
earthenware

40. Causes of the decline of the Han empire
unable
control
warlords

41. Causes of the decline of the Han empire
neglect
commerce
increased
oppressed
peasants
revolt

42. Causes of the decline of the Han empire
Invaders

43. Works cited Art Background images:
Background images: