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20 Cards in this Set
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signs that record meanings rather than sounds
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Chinese characters
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clay bodies fired at low temperature in open pits or simple kilns
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earthenware
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clay vessle fired at temp more than 2000*
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stoneware
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vessle from anyang china, shang dynasty 12th or 10th century bce
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Guane
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shang Bronze rivalled any other ancient civilization
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Bronze Age/ Bronze Casting
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used for artwork and ritual objects in Neolithic Period
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Jade (Nephrite)
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varnish like substance made from sap of asiatic sumac, used to decorate wood furnished objects
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Lacquer
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thin, flat circular piece of jade with hole in center, may symbolize heaven
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bi-disk
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nature religon to china/ stress an intutive awareness, nurtured by harmonious contact with nature and eschews everything artificial
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Diaoism
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tradition of venerating deceased ancestors
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Confucicus
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root word for modern china. ----'s powerful armies defeated all rival states. Became 1st emperor of ---- dynasty
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Quin
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silk comes from cacoons of silkworms. Silk road is the trade roots opened by thetrade of silk
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Silk and Silk road
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historical buddah dated yr 338 from Zhao dynasty
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Shakyamuni Budah
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art of chinese characters depicting pictures rather than sounds
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caligraphy
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personal and intamite art to be viewed vertically unrolled
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handscroll
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masters of brush work
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chinese brushwork and texture strokes
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high shoulder shape of vase
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Meiping
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incising design through colored slip
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sgraffitto
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tower/building type often associated with buddhism in china
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Pagoda
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stressed conquest for personal enlightenment meditation, flourtied in song dynasty
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chan buddhism
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