1. Multiple Choices: choose the MOST appropriate answer to the question. Please mark your final answers clearly.

1. The political base for the Zhou state before its conquest of the Shang was located at

A. Taosi; B. Luoyang; C. Anyang; D. Zhouyuan in the Guanzhong basin

2. At the turn of the first millennium BCE, the Zhou political order was consolidated by:

A. granting lands to lords and their lineages to establish regional states;
B. the implementation of centralized state administration with the appointed officials;
C. trade and diplomacy;
D. control of mediums of religious communication

3. The architects of the Zhou state claimed to the Luoyang basin as the center of the Zhou world order and the old place of Xia. From an archaeological perspective, the major political power based in the Luoyang basin before the rise of Zhou was:

A. Shimao; B. Qin; C. Late Shang; D. Erlitou;

4. Bronze vessels in early China was produced with the techniques of:

A. Piece-mold casting with clay mold;
B. Hammering sheet metal;
C. Lost-waxing casting;
D. All of above;

5. The tombs of Zhou lords in the middle first millennium BC often featured dozens of chariots, while the First Emperor's tomb complex near Xi'an featured live-size figurines of infantry troops, common known as the terra cotta soldiers. This change in mortuary practice indicates:

A. The changing nature of warfare from aristocratic chariot battles to the destructive wars fought by infantry troops in the Warring States period;
B. The change in social structure towards centralized, territorial state, where the state had direct control over the commoners;
C. The development of a professional army based on performance instead of inherited ranks;
D. All of above.

6. The political center of the Qin Empire was located in:

A. The Luoyang basin;
B. The Jinnan basin;
C. The Guanzhong basin;
D. The Middle Yangzi

7. During the early imperial period, the Great Wall was built against the northern empire of

A: Xiongnu: B: Qin; C: Tang; D. Han

8. The Silk Road connecting China and the West was opened

A. As pan of the imperial diplomacy to cope with the Han-Xiongnu conflict;

B. During the early imperial period;
C. Aiming at building allies with the states in Central Asia;
D. All of above;

9. The first systematic use of writing in early China occurred in:

A. Anyang (Y inxu) during the Late Shang period for oracle bone divination;
B. Zhengzhou during the Early Shang period for bureaucratic record keeping;
C. Shimao during the Longshan period for ritual communication;
D. )(ran during the Qin dynasty for centralized administration;

10. Mt. Song, the Central Peak of the Five Sacred Mountains of the Early imperial China, is located next to:

A. the Luoyang basin;
B. the Guanzhong basin;
C. the Jinnan basin;
D. the Yangzi River basin

11. The Zhou notion of Three Dynasties historical landscape:

A. Placed Zhou in the west, Xia in the middle, Shang in the east;
B. Guided its state-building enterprise;
C. Was the basis for its notion of Mandate of Heaven;
D. All of above;

12. The Fall of the Western Zhou in 771 BCE resulted in:

A. the lose of the Guanzhong basin to highland invasion;
B. the relocation ofThou royal court to the Luoyang basin;
C. the decline of Zhou royal power;
D. all of above.

13. Interactions across the Eurasian steppes during the late third and second millennium BCE brought new technologies and trade items to early China, which included:

A. Pastoral animals (cattle and sheep);
B. Oracle bone divination;
C. Metallurgy;
D. All of above;

14. The Guanzhong basin rose to political eminence for the first time in Chinese history during the

A. Longshan period;
B. Shang period;
C. Western Zhou period;
D. Early imperial period;