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What is the largest known ancient bronze vessel from China, cast during the late Shang dynasty?

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Houmuwu ding

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Which ancient Chinese writing system is preserved on animal bones and turtle shells from the Shang dynasty?

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Oracle bone script

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Which traditional Chinese painting technique uses fine outlines and carefully applied layers of opaque color?

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Gongbi

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What is the name of the silk burial banner found in the tomb of Xin Zhui at Mawangdui?

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T-shaped silk banner

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Which Chinese Buddhist grotto complex near Luoyang is famous for its Longmen Grottoes inscriptions?

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Longmen Grottoes

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Who painted the Song-dynasty handscroll Along the River During the Qingming Festival?

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Zhang Zeduan

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In which city are China’s famous Mogao Caves, renowned for Buddhist murals and sculptures?

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Dunhuang

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Which Chinese calligraphy script is also called the “regular script”?

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Kaishu

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What is the Chinese landscape-painting tradition whose name literally means “mountain-water”?

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Shan shui

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Which dynasty commissioned the Terracotta Army near Xi’an as part of Qin Shi Huang’s mausoleum?

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Qin dynasty

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In what year was the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders, burned by Herostratus?

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356 BC

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Who sculpted the ancient Statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the Seven Wonders?

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Phidias

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