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11 Cards in this Set
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Yellow River
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Also called the China Sorrow
2700 miles long Flood plains and deposit silt Great for agriculture People had to work together to create dykes River might change course with a massive flood Cause king to lose MOH |
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Warring States Period
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E. Zhou split into 2
Spring/Autumn and WSP Also known as 100 schools of thought b/c of all the new philosophies Wanted to bring back stability Marked by population growth and instaiblity Saw the beginning of Confucianism/Daoism |
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Buddhism
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Started with Prince SIddartha
Lived a life of privilege, saw all the suffering around him Discover you live and sturggle, die, then do it all over again Believe in nirvana, only way to reach it is to live the Buddhist life Also believe in karma, if you do good in this life it will affect you in the next Entered China from India during a time of Chaos Became popular becuase it offerend an end to all suffering |
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Civil Service Exam
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Gov't uses the Confucian educate to choose its officials
Study texts their whole lives, live the Confucian life Grading based on memorizaton, not creativity All officials believed the same ideas which meant the gv't was very stable Also outdated The poor could not afford to take tests Ultimate honor was having a son that worked for the government |
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Oracle Bones
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Date back to 1400 BCE
Made from turtle shell/ox bone King would ask his ancestors a question Medicine man would interpret crack in the bone, intepret it and write question on it Important b/c it is the first examples of the written language Some of the symbols are still being used today Means its the oldest written language |
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Daoism
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Created in the WSP to bring back order in soceity
Wanted a solution to all the warfare and death Best to turn away from power struggle b/c all of it was man made Once free from the conventions, society would fall into place Believed in relativity, passivity and emptiness. |
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Filial Peity
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Practice of worshipping ancestors
Women were responsible for carrying on this tradition One wife was responsbile for carryting it on and making sure it was done properly |
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Sinification
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Buddhism went through this when it entered China, it became more Chinese
Chinese would not accept religion b.c it was forgiegn Some of the practices changed like living in the monestary and the practice of cremation Texts also went through sinification when they wee translated into Chinese |
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Mandate of Heaven
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Used to determine if a ruler should still have the throne
Claimed political legitimacy If a ruler claimed he had the mandate and everythign went well, he reamined ruler If disastwrs occured, he would lose it b/c Heaven was no longer happy Practice used when China was under the rule of 1 leader |
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Mencius
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Conufcian thinking born about 100 years about Confucian
Wrote at least one chapter in the Analects Added ideas about the human nature, believed men were by nature good Believed the innate goodness could be developed only by an education The king had duty to provide all with education and right to live If he didn't, the mandate was at stake |
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Concubine
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Practice of taking a woman into the home only to produce children
She was not technically a wife, she didn't perofrm rituals, only there to have kids Didn't matter who the mother's ancestors were Need for sons was important to carry on father's name |
