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1. 01The Great Wall of China was built mainly to defend against whom?
2. 02Who became the first emperor of a unified China?
3. 03How was the Terracotta Army discovered in 1974?
4. 04Which luxury fabric, spun from caterpillar cocoons, gave the Silk Road its name?
5. 05The Forbidden City, the vast imperial palace complex, stands in which city?
6. 06Which creature was the special symbol of the Chinese emperor?
7. 07Paper, printing, and gunpowder are three of China's four great inventions. What is the fourth?
8. 08Which thinker's teachings on respect, family, and duty shaped Chinese society for over two thousand years?
9. 09Imperial China's civil service exams chiefly tested candidates on what?
10. 10The famous military treatise The Art of War is attributed to which strategist?
11. 11The earliest known Chinese writing was carved on what, used for divination?
12. 12Admiral Zheng He led enormous treasure fleets across the Indian Ocean during which dynasty?
13. 13Which dynasty was so defining that China's majority ethnic group is still named after it?
14. 14What bead-and-rod counting device helped Chinese merchants do fast arithmetic for centuries?
15. 15For centuries, revealing the secrets of silk making to foreigners was punishable in China by what?
16. 16The Tang dynasty is celebrated above all as a golden age of which art?
17. 17Ancient accounts claim Qin Shi Huang's still unopened tomb contains flowing rivers of what?
18. 18Chinese alchemists stumbled upon gunpowder while searching for what?

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