Question: Relatives of what family were exiled after Sun Cheng had overthrown the regime?
Answer: Yan

Question: How did Liang Ji die?
Answer: forced to commit suicide

Question: On what charge was Li Ying jailed for?
Answer: treason

Question: Who was responsible for imprisoning Li Ying?
Answer: Palace eunuchs

Question: During what type of crisis did Emperor Huan alienate the bureaucracy?
Answer: economic

Question: Students from what university led a protest against members of Huan's court?
Answer: Imperial

Question: When did Dou Wu die?
Answer: 168 AD

Question: Who arrested Chen Fan in a failed plot?
Answer: the eunuchs

Question: How did Dou Wu pass away?
Answer: he was forced to commit suicide

Question: Who made accusations of treason against Dou Wu?
Answer: General Zhang Huan

Question: Which group was favorable to Zhang Huan?
Answer: the eunuchs

Question: What type of action was attempted on the eunuchs?
Answer: coup d'état

Question: In what year did the Partisan Prohibitions end?
Answer: 184 AD

Question: In what year did Zhang Lu's rebellion end?
Answer: 215 AD

Question: How many provinces did Zhang Jue's rebellion take place in?
Answer: eight

Question: What type of healer was Zhang Jue?
Answer: faith

Question: What religion did Zhang Jue practice?
Answer: Daoist

Question: Who was assassinated on September 22, 189 AD?
Answer: He Jin

Question: Who agreed to the execuation of the eunuchs?
Answer: Empress He

Question: Who negated the execution order on the eunuchs?
Answer: He Miao

Question: Who was the family member that Emperor Shao escaped with?
Answer: Liu Xie

Question: What did General-in-Chief He petition Empress He for?
Answer: the eunuchs' execution

Question: How was Luoyang destroyed?
Answer: burned

Question: Who demoted Emperor Shao?
Answer: Dong Zhuo

Question: What position would the young Liu Xie eventually be promoted to?
Answer: Emperor Xian

Question: Who had taken control of Luoyang?
Answer: General Dong Zhuo

Question: When did Dong Zhuo die?
Answer: 192 AD

Question: Who was defeated at the Battle of Red Cliffs in 208 AD?
Answer: Cao

Question: Who did Emperor Xian give his throne to?
Answer: Cao Pi

Question: What state was in a conflict with Eastern Wu, and Shu Han?
Answer: Cao Wei

Question: Who was in control of the south of China?
Answer: Sun Quan

Question: In what month did Cao Cao die?
Answer: March

Question: During what period was it obvious that corruption was widespread in the government?
Answer: mid-to-late Eastern Han

Question: What rank provided its holder territorial rule?
Answer: full marquess

Question: What class did individuals who served as officials in the government belong to?
Answer: commoner social

Question: What was considered to be more important to some than serving the local government?
Answer: cultivation of morally grounded personal relationships

Question: What rank is below that of full marquess?
Answer: ordinary marquess

Question: Who were considered to be below the social rank that scholars held?
Answer: The farmer

Question: What color of clothing were merchants that had registered with the state forced to wear?
Answer: white-colored

Question: Who was commonly considered by some to be social parasites?
Answer: State-registered merchants

Question: Who would retainers in the employ of nobles occasionally have to fight?
Answer: bandits

Question: How could a merchant prevent having to register as one?
Answer: working between a network of cities

Question: How many family members would commonly live in a single household during the Han era?
Answer: four to five

Question: Whose opinion on the spouse of an arranged marriage was considered to be more important?
Answer: the father's

Question: Who were rich enough to afford multiple lovers?
Answer: nobles and high officials

Question: What type of family was your typical Han era family considered to be?
Answer: patrilineal

Question: What type of marriage was thought of as a normal occurrence in this era?
Answer: Arranged marriages

Question: How did daughters get their portion of the family fortune?
Answer: marriage dowries

Question: What type of title could be passed down?
Answer: noble

Question: What type of document could be produced to distribute some of an inheritance?
Answer: a will

Question: Was is guaranteed that a first born son would receive all of the family's fortune?
Answer: inheritance practices did not involve primogeniture

Question: Which family member commonly sent an adult married offspring away with their portion of the families fortune?
Answer: the father

Question: Which gender was exempt from performing the yearly corvee labor duties?
Answer: Women

Question: What emotional state would empresses commonly place their immediate family members in?
Answer: openly humiliated

Question: What type of occupation did women commonly take part in?
Answer: income-earning

Question: Who were women obligated to obey in their old age?
Answer: their adult son

Question: Which parental figures often avoided the common familial rules?
Answer: mothers

Question: What philosophy was given exclusivity in the court during the rule of Emperor Wu?
Answer: Confucianism

Question: Who put an end to all erudites?
Answer: Emperor Wu

Question: How many students were in the Imperial University by the second century?
Answer: over 30,000

Question: What type of philosophy was available for individuals at the commanderies?
Answer: Confucian

Question: Where did teachers make their money from at private schools?
Answer: tuition payments

Question: Who had produced biographies of individuals of significant importance?
Answer: various gentrymen

Question: What type of poetry had much influence in the Han dynasty?
Answer: fu

Question: Who had written the dictionary Fangyan?
Answer: Yang Xiong

Question: Which person had authored the Book of Han?
Answer: Ban Biao

Question: What was the name of Ban Biao's female offspring?
Answer: Ban Zhao

Question: What type of torture was acquired from Qin law?
Answer: mutilation

Question: What eventually replaced torturous mutilation as a type of punishment?
Answer: progressively less-severe beatings

Question: What could a criminal in this era expect not to happen if he was convicted of a crime?
Answer: criminals were never imprisoned

Question: What type of extreme punishment was likely to be laid upon those who committed the harshest of crimes?
Answer: death by beheading

Question: What did women commonly have less of?
Answer: rights

Question: What type of crop was rice considered to be during this period?
Answer: staple crops

Question: What were dogs in this era most likely to be considered?
Answer: pets

Question: What type of partridge was commonly consumed?
Answer: Chinese bamboo

Question: Where were turtles acquired from?
Answer: streams and lakes

Question: What was the color of the bayberries?
Answer: red

Question: What could be used to prevent a door from closing in a place of burial?
Answer: hollow clay tiles

Question: What type of decoration was often seen in tombs?
Answer: hollow clay tiles

Question: What was the afterlife of the immortals called during this period?
Answer: xian

Question: What is the commonly held notion regarding the dual nature of the soul called?
Answer: two-part soul

Question: What function did the holes in the top and bottom of the tomb tiles enable them to do?
Answer: allowing it to pivot

Question: Who made sacrifices to the main deities in this period?
Answer: the emperor

Question: What type of geological event was feared could be caused by the morals of the emperor?
Answer: earthquakes

Question: What is another term that could be used to label the main deities?
Answer: the Five Powers

Question: How many realms were commonly thought of as being linked by a natural cycle?
Answer: three realms

Question: What type of swarm was a concern because of the emperor's ethics?
Answer: locusts