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31 Cards in this Set
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Zhou Dynasty
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1027-256 BCE
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Warring states period
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402-332 BCE
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Qin period
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256-206 BCE
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Han Dynasty
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207 BCE- 210 C.E.
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Age of Disunity
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220-589 C.E.
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Ancestor worship
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A religious practice based on the belief that deceased family members existence continue’s
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yin
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feminen dark passive force
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yang
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masculine bright active force
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daoism
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a Chinese folk religion.
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confucianism
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is a Chinese ethical and philosophical system originally developed from the teachings of the early Chinese sage Confucius
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zhou dynasty
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a group that rebelled against the shang using the mandate of heaven.
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analects
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a record of the words and acts of the central Chinese thinker Confucius and his disciples
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filial peity
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respect for ones parents or elders
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li
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the influential Prime Minister (or Chancellor) of the feudal state and later of the dynasty of Qin
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mandate of heaven
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a document made by the zhou proposing rebellion against the shang
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dynastic cycle
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A circle representing the beggining and end of life
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tao te ching
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The Book of the Way and its Virtue written around 600 BCE by the Taoist sage Laozi
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legalism
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one of the four main philosophic schools in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period
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I ching
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The book of changes
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well-field system
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a Chinese land distribution method since at least 9th century BC
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shi
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The chinese term for poetry
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Qin dynasty
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(256 BC - 206 BC) preceded by the Zhou Dynasty and followed by the Han Dynasty in China
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China
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Western word invented by Shi Huagdi
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Great wall
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Rebuilt during the Ming dynasty to keep the Mongholians out
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Han Dynasty
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206 BC–AD 220) followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China
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Civil Service bureaucracy
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Endured the the preindustrial world
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Tributary relations
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made the nomad rulers had to travel to the imperial court
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ridge-and-furrow
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system of planting that planted seeds planted in lines along the furrows
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paper
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invented in 105 C.E.
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silk road
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Established long distance trade between the east and the West
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The romance of the three kingdoms
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A novel telling the storyof kind aurthur and his knights
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