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32 Cards in this Set
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Who were the first to unify China under imperial rule?
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The Qin
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How long did the Zhou last?
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About 900 years
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What did the Zhou Rulers called themselves?
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The Sons of Heaven
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the belief that the gods determined who should rule China
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The Mandate of Heaven
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What allowed peasants to cultivate new lands and produce more grain than ever before?
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iron tools
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How did the Zhou rule the empire?
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They granted territories to members of the royal family and allies to rule their own way but had to give military service and tribute to the Zhou kings
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Why did the dynasty survive an an invading ransack of the capital?
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The dynasty moved eastward setting up a new capital further on the Huang He.
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When the Zhou relocated what was it called?
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The Eastern Zhou
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What were warring states?
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new states that emerged and competed for control over China. they fought for exteneded territories
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What warring state emerged successful?
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The Qin emerged successful in taking over China to become the next dynasty
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Who was Shi Huangdi?
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His name means "first emperor" and he founded the Qin Dynasty
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What was the Qin capital?
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Xi'an (Chang-an)
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What did the Qin do that no dynasty had doen before?
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Ruled a much larger area and unified China under a strong central government
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What did the Qin created?
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The first Chinese empire, standardized weights, measures, coinage and uniform system of writing
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Who began the creation of the Great Wall of China?
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The Qin Dynasty
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emperor holds total power; used by Qin
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autocracy
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Who lead the overthrow of the Qin Dynasty?
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Liu Bang
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What title did Liu Bang take that named the dynasty?
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King of Han
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What do many chinese refer to themselves as and why?
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They refer to themselves as the Sons of Han becasue the Han rulers had such an influence on China today
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Who was teh longest ruling emperor?
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Wu Di
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administers the day-to-day business of government
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civil service
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the policy that allowed government agents to even out the effectcs of years of surplus and years of shortages
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leveling
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What was carried on silk road?
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silk, jade, and other valuable goods
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What are the steps of the dynastic cycle?
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1. New dynasty comes to power
2.improves government 3. people lives are improved 4. problems like invasions begin 5. taxes increase 6. government increases spending 7. the poor loose respect 8. attack emperor 9. dynasty is defeated |
9 steps
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whats another name for confucus?
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master kung or kung fu-tzu
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two sideness of nature; says everything has a balancing force
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dualism
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What is yin?
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female, dark, passive, night
depends on yang |
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what is yang?
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male, light, active, day
depends on yin |
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Who was Confucius?
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Confucius was the founder of confucianism and he believed in the old teachings. He lived in poverty at age of 3 after his dad died. He wrote his ideas and teaching in the analects
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What confucianism religious?
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NO!!!!!
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Who created doaism?
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Laozi
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What is doaism?
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an incredible force that governed the univerese and all nature by withdrawing the world and comtemplating nature
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