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10 Cards in this Set
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Luoyang
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Zhou capital after lost land to western nomads
on Yellow river 480 BCE rule is over |
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Warring States Period
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feuding regional Chinese warlords battled for control
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King Cheng
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Of Qin empire
reunited China 221 BCE took name Qin Shihhuangdi |
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Legalism
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implemented by King Cheng
grew out of turmoirl of Warring States unquestioned devotion to king |
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Chang's government
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power centered completely on himself
not shared w/aristocracy only imperial family had hereditary gov. priviledges |
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Qin's structure of ruling through government bureaus
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sole loyalty to imperial throne
officials chosen off merit/knowledge/experience soon became chosen by birth (only rich could afford education) |
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period of extreme totalitarianism
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Qin executed political opponents
first recorded literary inquisition |
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Qin literary inquisition
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banished/burned alive Confucian scholars
burned confucian writing forced Shang and Zhou literacy underground |
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Shiji
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"Record of the Historian"
by Sima Qian salvaged remains of ancient work destroyed during inquisition |
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Positive side of Qin Shihhuangdi
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mobilized resourced on much larger scale
established standard script/coinage est. system of gov. lasting to 20th c. |
