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29 Cards in this Set
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Shang Dynasty
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1700-1050 BCE
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Late Shang Dynasty Anyang capital
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1200-1050 BCE
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Western Zhou
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1050-771 BCE
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Eastern Zhou
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770-256 BCE
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Spring and Autumn Period
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770-476 BCE
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Warring States Period
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476-256 BCE
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Chu
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Southern
Individualistic |
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Qin
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Legalist
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Han Dynasty
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202 BCE - 220 CE
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Foreign Invasion of China
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317 CE
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Northern Wei Dynasty
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439-535 CE
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Reunification of China
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589 CE
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Anti Buddhism Measures
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446-452 CE
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Beginning of Buddhist places of worship in Dunhuang
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366 CE
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Sinosised
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Having a Chinese nature
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Mask
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Marks an object as an offering to the ancestors
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Lord on High
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Initial Chinese deity
not shown in a physical form |
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Monocles
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animal motifs showing profile
appear to only have one eye |
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Shaman
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intermediary between this and another world
has special powers often helped by animals or drugs |
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Pits
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place where things were arbitrarily placed then buried
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Tian
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Heaven (sort of a power)
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Mingqi
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substitute for human sacrifice in burials
small doll |
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Proto-Buddhism
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Buddhist imagery used without context
beginning of Buddhism in China |
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Money tree
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Meant to bring wealth and longevity
Honored the queen mother of the west |
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necropolis
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city of the dead
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Silk road
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trade route connecting Rome to the East coast of China
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Section mold casting
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make clay core bake it
put clay around it cut it into sections shave the core slightly incise the negative of the pattern onto the sections put it all together pour in bronze take out cool and polish |
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Lost wax technique
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cast the object in wax
put clay around it heat so the wax pours out pour the bronze in |
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Brick relief
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carve the image that will be raised into the wood
push clay in and form brick bake |
