Question

chinese dynasties
vocabulary and key people:

1. - what the chinese people believed gave their rulers the right to be king or emperor.
2. - most influential chinese philosopher
3. - 1st emperor of china and founder of the qin dynasty
4. - massive burial tomb where there are over 8,000 life size statues of soldiers buried along with the emperor.
5. - administrative system of the traditional chinese government, the members of which were selected by a competitive examination.
6. - philosophy of confucius, stressed respect for ancestors, obedience, and virtue
7. - manmade waterway
8. - a past time of peace, prosperity, and happiness. the peak of a civilizations culture
9. - an instrument containing a magnetized pointer which shows the direction of magnetic north
10. - mongolian founder of the yuan dynasty.
11. - the last chinese emperor

Explanation:

1. Refers to the traditional Chinese political legitimacy doctrine.
2. Refers to the foundational figure of Confucianism.
3. Refers to the ruler who unified China under the Qin.
4. Refers to the famous funerary site of the first Qin emperor.
5. Refers to the historical system of scholar-official selection.
6. Refers to the philosophical system from Confucius.
7. Refers to a large artificial water passage, specifically the major ancient Chinese one.
8. Refers to a term for a golden age of a civilization.
9. Refers to the ancient Chinese navigational invention.
10. Refers to the Mongol leader who established the Yuan dynasty.
11. Refers to the final ruler of the Qing dynasty, last imperial ruler of China.

Answer:

1. Mandate of Heaven
2. Confucius
3. Qin Shi Huang (Ying Zheng)
4. Terracotta Army (Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang)
5. Civil Service Exam System
6. Confucianism
7. Grand Canal
8. Golden Age
9. Compass
10. Kublai Khan
11. Puyi (Xuantong Emperor)