China Vocabulary Chapter 3 Section 3

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Huang He

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Yellow River, stretches across China for more than 2,900 miles, carrying its rich yellow silt all the way from Mongolia to the Pacific Ocean

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Chang Jiang

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Yangtze River, is even longer, flowing for about 3,400 miles across China before emptying into the Yellow Sea

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Aristocracy

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An upper class whose wealth is based on land and whose power is passed from one generation to another

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Mandate of Heaven

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It was believed that Heaven kept order in the universe through the Zhou king

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Dao

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"Way" the key to proper behavior under Confucianism

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Filial Piety

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The duty of family members to subordinate their needs and desires to those of the male head of the family, a concept important in Confucianism

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Pictographs

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A picture symbol, or character, that represents an object; used in ancient Chinese script

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Ideographs

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A character that combines two or more photographs to represent an idea; used in ancient Chinese script

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Confucius

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Known to the Chinese as the First Teacher, westernized form of Konguzi meaning "mAster Kung"

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Confucianism

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The system of political and ethical ideas formulated by Confucius toward the end of the Zhou dynasty; it was intended to help restore order to a society that was in a state of confusion

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Daoism

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A system of ideas based on the teachings of Laozi; teaches that the will of Heaven is best followed through inaction so that nature is allowed to take its course

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Laozi

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The Old master, who lived around the samt itm ea s Confucius, whose ideas helped form Daoism

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Legalism

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A popular philosophy developed in China toward the end of the Zhou dynasty; it proposes that human beings are evil by nature and can only be brought to the correct path by harsh laws