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22 Cards in this Set
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Stone Age Culture |
agriculture, pottery, primitive writing. Yangshao-painted pottery culture 5000BC Longshan- black pottery 3000-1600 BC |
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Bronze Age Culture |
Urban centers, occupational specialization. Xia, Shang, Western Zhou. capital cities. chariots |
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Western Zhou |
1027-771 Zhou invade Shang cuz corruption. Zhou kings lose power to nobles gradually. 771 sacked by barbarians. |
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Eastern Zhou |
770-256 royal family flees east sets up new kingdom. Multistate system. |
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Yu the great |
Tames floods, creates Xia Dynasty
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Myths/Legends |
no creation story in early books culture heroes and sage kings like yellow emperor
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Shang dynasty |
1500 BC? credited with writing |
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Mandate of Heaven |
Emperors granted right by heaven to rule, overthrow. |
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Dynastic cycle |
Corruption-famine-civil war-heavenly ruler emerges-starts fresh |
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Debate on salt and iron |
Whether there should be salt and iron monopolies or if government should intervene
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yi jing |
Book of changes, FORTUNE TELLING through hexagrams. Solid line-yang-man broken line-yin-female
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Shu Jing |
book of history of documents of courts. mandate of heaven |
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Li ji |
classic of rites
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Chunqiu |
spring and autumn annal, Hystory of lu |
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Liu Bang |
peasant capture qin capital, starts han dynast. Less harsh than legalism, military smarts, beuracratic rule |
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Han wudi |
6th emperor 141-87 BC confucian scholars as buerocrats starts confucian academy military campaigns (rome like) silk road |
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Silk road |
Trading road through central china |
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Laozi |
DAOIST political theory attack on confucius "do not honor worthy, people will not compete" "do not value treasure, no stealing" no knowledge for people |
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Zhuangzi |
DAOIST not interested in government focused on inner qi hermit |
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Confucius |
born in LU "first thinker: 551 BC Taught all social classes in return for gifts believed king is a cosmic link, whole world under rule male family heirarchy |
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mencius |
2nd most famous confucian public welfare right of rebellion sage would ensure crops for all |
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Han Feizu |
FIrst Emperor 221 bc very strict legalist creates start of great wall, elaborate tomb destroys 100 schools standardization of axles, coins, weights big military |
