Ancient China

Worksheet: Ancient China

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Answer the questions.

1. What is the Yellow River's fertile silt-rich soil good for?
   a) Building shipsb) Growing cropsc) Making glassd) Mining gold
2. Why was the Yellow River sometimes called 'China's Sorrow'?
   a) It often floodedb) It was dried upc) It was frozen all yeard) It was full of rocks
3. Early Chinese farming villages grew up along the Yellow River.
   a) Trueb) False
4. Why was the Great Wall built?
   a) To help protect China from invadersb) To hold back river floodsc) To mark a farming fieldd) To store grain for winter
5. The Great Wall was built in a single year by one emperor.
   a) Trueb) False
6. Which dynasty is the earliest of these?
   a) Hanb) Qinc) Shangd) Tang
7. Who became the first emperor of a united China, in the Qin dynasty?
   a) Confuciusb) Kublai Khanc) Marco Polod) Qin Shi Huang
8. Which dynasty followed the Qin dynasty?
9. The Shang dynasty is known for writing on what, to ask the gods questions?
   a) Clay tabletsb) Oracle bonesc) Paper scrollsd) Silk banners
10. Which material did ancient Chinese people make paper from, around 100 AD?
    a) Animal hornsb) Crushed shellsc) Melted sandd) Plant fibres and rags
11. What fabric did China keep secret for centuries, made by silkworms?
12. What does a compass needle point towards?
    a) Magnetic northb) The Moonc) The Sund) The nearest sea
13. What was the Silk Road?
    a) A network of trade routesb) A river in Chinac) A single paved streetd) A wall of silk
14. The Silk Road linked China with lands far to the west, including Europe.
    a) Trueb) False
15. Name an animal that carried goods along the Silk Road across deserts.
16. Besides goods, what else travelled along the Silk Road?
    a) Aeroplanesb) Ideas and religionsc) Railwaysd) Telephones