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66 Cards in this Set
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Toward which part of the Chinese political system did Voltaire express great admiration?
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The use of civil service exams to determine access to government positions.
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Which two social theorists mentioned by USAD were harshly critical of China's political order?
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Karl Marx and Max Weber
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Which year is considered to mark the beginning of the Imperial Order?
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221 B.C.
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What was the first ruling group concerning which we have extensive written records?
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Zhou (1050 B.C. -256 B.C.)
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During which dynasty did Confucianism become the official ideology?
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Han (206 B.C.-A.D. 220)
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What is Tian?
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Heaven
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Men who had been castrated to be eligible for service keeping order in the emperor's household were called _______.
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Eunuchs
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Who was Zheng He?
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A 14th century navigator who hailed from a poor family.
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What is another name for Mandate of Heaven?
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Tianming
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Who said that heaven "sees with the eyes and hears with the ears of the people" ?
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Mencius
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Who did not belong to a social class?
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Women
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What do "rou" "jirou" & "niurou" mean?
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Pork, chicken meat, beef
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Which ethnic group do 90% of chinese belong to?
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Han
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Besides China proper, what two countries does Manchuria share a border with?
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Siberia, Korea
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What does Qing mean?
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pure
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What type of bureaucratic structure did the Qing dynasty set up?
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Dual bureaucratic structure
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Bannner system included which kinds of leaders?
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leaders w/military skills that were chosen from specific ethnic groups & families w/ties to the imperial house.
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What year was the rising of the Eight Trigrams sect and how many people died?
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1813; 70,000
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Xinjiang is also known as
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Chinese Turkestan
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When did the White Lotus Rebellion occur?
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1796-1804
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When did the Opium War start and when did the Treaty of Nanjing take effect?
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1839; 1843
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Name the five original treaty ports.
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Fuzhou, Xiamen, Ningbo, Shanghai, Guangshou
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When did the Sino-Japanese war start?
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1894
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Why was the Sino-Japanese war fought?
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To decide who would have control of Korea.
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Where were the Boxers from?
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Villages in North China
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What does the character "young" mean?
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Utility
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When was the Taiping Uprising?
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1848-1864
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Who was the leader of the Taiping Uprising?
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Hong Xiuquan
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What is "Hakka"?
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It is an ethnic grop which literally means "guest people". They are from north China.
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Who was inaugurated president of the ROC on January 1, 1912?
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Sun Zhongshan
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Which leader pushed Sun from presidency in 1912?
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Yuan Shikai
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Where did Sun Zhongshan set up operations as the head of the Nationalist Party?
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Guangzhou
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What was Xin Qingnian?
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A journal that became central organ in the "New Culture Movement". It means New Youth.
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When did the New Culture Movement take place?
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1915-1923
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When did protests begin because Shangdong Province was given over to Japan during the Paris Peace Conference?
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May 4, 1919
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Where did the May 4 movement take place in 1919 and how many students participated?
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Beijing; 3,000
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When members of all all urban social classes joined the students and the May 4th protest reached its climax in June, which city's economic life was paralyzed?
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Shanghai's
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What year did the Russian Revolution occur?
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1917
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Who were Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao?
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radical professors and CCP's early leaders
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Why did Sun Zhoungshan partner up with CCP in 1924?
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to oppose the twin evils of warlord power and foregin engroachments on Chinese sovereignty
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What key event that occured in 1925 increased CCP's impact on Chinese politics?
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Chinese worker was slain in a Japanese mill and workers of the foreign run police force fired into a crowd of demonstrators which lead to the May 30th Movement
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When did the anti imperialist movement occur which evolved from a single city protest to a national one that peaked with a Shanghai general strike?
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May 30, 1925
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What did the Northern Expedition campaign do?
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It militarily unified China and ousted the warlords from power.
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The joind GMD-CCP army was lead by _____ _____.
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Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)
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What city became the capital of the ROC in 1925 after Jiang Jieshi became president of the ROC?
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Nanjing
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Who had control of China from 1927 to 1937?
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GMD
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Who had control of much of China from 1937 to 1945?
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Japan
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Which part of China did the Communists govern from 1945 to 1949?
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North China
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What is Jiang Jieshi's nickname?
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Generalissimo
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Who is Song Meiling?
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She is Sun's wife who married Jiang Jieshi.
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Who helped Jiang Jieshi purge Communist Party members in April of 1927?
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The Green Gang
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What did the New Life Movement do? (started by Jian Jieshi in 1930's)
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It called for a revival of Conficianism as the official creed.
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Where was the CCP's headquarters in the south before the Long March?
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Jiangxi
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When did the Long March occur?
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1934-1935
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When did Japan gain control of Taiwan?
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1910
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Who had control of much of China from 1937 to 1945?
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Japan
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What is Jiang Jieshi's nickname?
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Generalissimo
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Marco Polo Bridge Incident occured near which city?
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Beijing
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How long did the Second United Front last?
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8 years
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Who had control of much of China from 1937 to 1945?
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Japan
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Which movements followed after Japan made menacing moves that seemed to presage a full-scale invasion of N. China in 1935?
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December 9 Movement
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Which 2 events made Jiang Jieshi change course and unite w/ the CCP for the second time?
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Xi'an Incident of 1936 and Japanese invasions of 1937
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How many Chinese were killed and how many women raped during the Rape of Nanjing?
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200,000-300,000 killed; 20,000 raped
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Where did the Nationalists set up their wartime government when pushed out of Nanjing?
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Chongqing (Sichuan Province)
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Where were the Communists based when the Japanese occupied China?
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Shaanxi, with main wartime center in the northern village of Yan'an.
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When did the Civil War occur in China?
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1945-1949
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