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What did Mozi teach?
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the practicality of universal love
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who was a diciple of Conficious that said people are naturally good?
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Mencious
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Who believed that people are naturally selfish but had potential to be goood?
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Xunzi
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What did Mencious say goodness needed?
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to be nourished and cultivated
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What idea did mencious develope?
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the idea of rule by mandate of heaven
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what was rule by mandate?
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a rule only held if the ruler governed properly
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Who introduced Taoism?
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Lao Tzu
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Where was Taoism introduced?
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to China
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what was Taoism?
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the study of eternal order of the universe
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what does Taoism deal with?
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unconditioned sourse of all reality
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How does Taoism trancend all being and non being?
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by standing above all distinctions
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the summary of Taoist Themes
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Those who know, do not speak, those who speak do not know
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what does Taoism teach?
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it teaches silence is more meaninsfuo than words
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Taoist themes are a preference of the negative over what?
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the positive
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"The deformed cheer men marching off to war" is an example of what?
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a Taoist theme
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What was the age of great change?
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the Ch'in Dynasty
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In the Ch'in Dynasty, Foot soldiers replaced men in what?
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chariots
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when was the unification of china?
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771- 221 BC
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In the Ch'in Dynasty agricultural productivity had increased to feed who?
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the troops
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why were technology advances needed in the unification of china?
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to irrigate and to reclaim the land
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the Ch'in Dynasty was also known as the
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Qin Dynasty
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what did armies do in the Unification of China?
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They grew to enormous sizes
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what did legalists believe?
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reason, as a good cheif code in administration
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what did rulers have to pay attention to?
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good councel and competent officials
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what tyed the regions together in the China unification?
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commerce increased
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What did the Chinese turn to in the Ch'in Dynasty?
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the past for guidance through a new period
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who did Han Fei Tzu turn to during the Ch'in dynasty?
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legalists for guidance
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to legalists, what did punative lased need to be used for?
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to rule properly
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where were the Chin located?
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in the west of north China
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what provided a good defense for the Chins?
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the mountains
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Where was the location of the Chin easy to access?
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the east
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How did the Quin harden their troops?
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they fought neighboring tribesmen
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what did the Qin Develope that helped them?
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a more refined administritive system
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What was the Qin state divided into? how was it governed?
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districts governed by a centralized bureaucracy
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what had a direct tax to the Qin?
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peasantry financed the governement
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what was enactd in the Qin?
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a system of mutual responsibility
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what were enacted to curb malfeasance in office?
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harsh penalties
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who was the most famous of the Qin emperors?
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Huang ti
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Huang ti was the son of a
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peasant
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where was Huang ti educated?
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in a Buddhist monastery
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who was Huang Ti's legalist cheif minister?
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Li Si
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what did Huang-li do to hisprovincial leaders families?
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he held them hostage in the capital
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how did Huang ti tie the empire together?
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by building a system of roads
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what was standardized in the realm of Qin and Han?
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coinage, weighs, and measures
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What did Haunge ti do to the writings of Confusious
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he ordered them to be burned
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huange ti connected sperate parts of walla=s built on the northern border now known as
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the Great Wall of China
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first dynasty compared flavorably with what empire?
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the roman empire
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the han had what kind of system that streched 25,000 miles
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a road system
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what are three things the han were famour for
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ship building, medicine, and astronomy
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who was the han dynastys great historian?
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sima Qiab
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what did the han depend on to govern the empire?
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a huge baurocrocy
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officials in the government were taken from a large body of what people?
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Confucian scholors
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the strenghths in chinese traditions were what two things?
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scholorship and commitment?
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most of the confucian men came from where?
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prominent families
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what did the han people do when funds were needed?
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they let the tax system omit the wealthy
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what right neglected the poor in the han dynasty?
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high grain prices and restricted land ownership
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what caused the fall of the First Han?
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high grain prices and restricted land ownership
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which dynasty had contace with Koreaa and Vietnam?
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the second han dynasty
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what became a major problem for the people in the second han dynasty?
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the northern frontiers
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what was, at first the han military might used against?
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the Huns
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like people from whom(a place), the han people used barbarians to fight barbarians
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romans
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today, chinese people still tink of themselfves as wht
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people of Han
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Han came to an end when?
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220
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when han ended what did it lead to?
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didunity
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what grew to small for the han, and what grew to large when it ended?
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tax base grew to small, forgein challenges grew to large
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nomadic people carved stated where in china?
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in north china
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the __ people were the most noticable of these northern states
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WEI!
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the northerners had to adopt chinise what__ after the fall of the han with help?
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political systems:)
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What filed the north after the fall of the Han?
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warfare
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what busied the south of china after the fall of the Han?
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Migration
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