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42 Cards in this Set
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five major regions of China |
Himalayas, Taklikimakan desert, Gobi Desert, North China Plain, Manchurian Plain, Chang Jiang Basin, and Plateau of Tibet |
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two major rivers of China |
Huang He (yellow river) and Yangtze River |
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Shang Dynasty (Bronze Age) |
First dynasty of China, weapons+art- bronze, 1st Chinese writing- characters for sounds (pictographs), oracle bones, kind had a relationship with ancestors |
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writing in China |
artistic endeavor |
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Oracle Bones |
Proves the Shang Dynasty existed. Bones that one would use to communicate with ancestors and ask questions |
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Zhou Dynasty |
Takes over the Shang with the Mandate of Heaven. Invented coinage, agriculture advanced, and used iron, lasted 900 yrs., ruled in feudal way |
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Warring States Period |
Zhou dynasty was divided into 8 states and they had frequent wars |
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Yin |
Woman, dark, moon, weakness, passive |
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Yang |
Man, light, sun, strength, aggressive |
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Mandate of Heaven (Zhou) |
A belief that the ruler is linked to the all powerful heaven (Tian) |
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Kong Fuzi |
Loves and values learning/education and how the past has helped shaped the future |
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Confucianism |
Creating order during chaotic times (Warring States), built on reciprocity., philosophy concerning not only yourself |
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Junzi |
Ideal gentlemen. He is trustworthy, polite, moral, and loving. |
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5 relationships |
1) Parent and child, 2) Ruler and subject, 3) Husband and wife, 4) Older sib and younger sib, 5) Friend and friend. All about finding order. |
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Li |
Rituals and manners |
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Ren |
Human heartedness and benevolence |
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Mozi |
Instead of roles, he wants universal love; love trumps other relationships |
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Mandate of Heaven (Mencius) |
If you act kind, nice, and respectful then you have the Mandate |
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Mencius |
General after Confucius, 3 Philosophies/Issues: 1) Human beings are innately good, 2) "well field system", 8 families farming together. 3) Mandate of heaven (different because how you give evidence) |
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"well-field system" |
needs satisfied fairly |
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Xunzi |
Believed that people are inherently bad (anti-social) unless taught otherwise (Legalism) |
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Han Feizi |
First to "write down" Legalism, order to chaos, unmodified by family concern, leaders do whatever |
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Legalism |
People left to their own devices can't function, strict rules and harsh punishment |
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Dao |
the way |
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Daoism |
A philosophical school, later a religion, focusing on natural harmony and non action. wandering, process not product |
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Qin Dynasty |
First emperor: Shi Huangdi, legalist beliefs, ultimate victim of Warring States Period |
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Zhuangi |
Rejects politics, and political power & engagement w/ society, and social respect |
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Daodoejing |
revolt against society and intellect's limitations |
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Han Dynasty |
arose when Qin fell, traded w/ rest of the world, didn't like legalist, softened Qin gov. w/ Wu and Wen |
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Shi Huangdi |
unified China for the first time, replaced feudalism and moved nobility to the city, strips hereditary nobility of power |
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Wu |
Military |
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Wen |
Ethics/Morality |
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Ban Zhao |
Female historian who wrote Chinese history |
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Rectification of names |
Act as who you are, no more and no less (connects to Ren and Li) |
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Historical Record |
written history, (Shiji) book Han were known for |
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"Confucian" women of Han |
men are superior to women, but women should be educated and have a role in society. purpose of female education- to serve family virtuously |
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West China |
outer China |
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East China |
inner China |
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Xia |
mythical dynasty |
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Lord Shang |
used Legalistic principles in Qin dynasty |
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Han technology, art, and scholarship |
technology- iron swords, fish-scaled armor, cross bows, kites, seismograph, paper, dictionary art- writing artistic endeavor scholarship- historical studies, taking exam to get into gov. position |
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where does China's name come from? |
Qin |
