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qin empire
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early legalistic chinese empire in which standardization was introduced, roads and canals were built, a census was taken for government purposes, and intellectual thought was repressed
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shihuangdi/first emperor
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legalistic chinese emperor who ordered all nobles to move to the captial, standardized script, weights, measures, and currency, began work on the great wall, and repressed intellectual thought
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great wall
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rammed-earth fortification along the northern chinese border used to keep enemies on horseback out of china
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qin achievements
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census to help plan government projects, effective legalistic government, roads and canals, standardized weights, currency, script, and measurements, early form of the great wall built
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liu bang/emperor gaozu
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chinese emperor who abolished harsh legalistic laws, sharply reduced taxes, and adopted a policy of laissez faire to promote economic recovery
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han dynasty
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chinese dynasty which promoted confucianism and recruited officials with confucian training and instituted a system of heredity succession of the throne; government supported by taxes and labor, government monopolies on iron, salt, and liquor
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han confucianism
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philosophy promoted by the han dynasty, officials recruited based on their learning and morals, university established for training, official power and prestige based on this, competitions between learned men
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china and the barbarians
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nomadic tribes north of china that raided china on horseback with the ability to shoot arrows while riding; family and clan linked to tribal chiefs, identified glory with military mights; peace with china was impossible so china had to defend against raids...an example is the huns
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age of division
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succession of child emperors allowed maternal relatives to dominate; emperors turned to palace eunuchs for help but they were difficult to control. scholarsh who denounced the eunuchs were punished. religious sect led mass revolt. armies fought among themselves. thousands of eunuchs killed, emperor captive. stalemate with three warlords ruling different territories
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sui dynasty
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chinese dynasty that oversaw the reunification of china and reasserted chinese control over northern vietnam and campaigned into korea and against the turks; instituted written exams for selection of officials; built the grand canal and strengthened maritime trade
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tang dynasty
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chinese dynasty in which china was established as the cultural center of east asia. the equal-field and militia systems were established then modified, the empire was subdivided into departments, exams were used to select officials, a school was set up to prepare for official work. this dynasty saw two women of great power and poetry and buddhism flourished
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empress wu
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consort of the weak and sickly emperor gaozong; she ruled after his death, deposing two sons and harshly dealing with all opponents; circulated a buddhist sutra that predicted a female monarch; effective leader of china; grandmother of xuanzong
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silla korea
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time of first political unification of korea, borrowed much of chinese culture and institutions, modeled on the tang dynasty, tremedous appeal of buddhism
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the trung sisters
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two widows of vietnamese aristocrats that led an uprising against foreign rule; they attacked and overwhelmed the chinese and had themselves proclaimed queens of an independent vietnamese kingdom
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the taiki reforms
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a bold effort to create a complete imperial and bureaucratic system like that of the tang empire
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nara japan
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japanese era in which there was avid importation of chinese ideas and methods; central government, time of smallpox epidemic; buddhist monasteries; japanese began writing their own books
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chang'an
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the tang capital and great cultural center of east asia; drew many merchants, pilgrims, missionaries, and students
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grand canal
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canal that connected the yellow and yangzi rivers and facilitated the shipping of tax grain from the yangzi delta to the centers of pilitical and military power in north china
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equal fields system
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Used to promote agricultural production, a system to distribute land to peasants
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silk road
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trade routes across central asia
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sericulture
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the labor-intensive process of silk-making
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