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This Chinese thinker believed society worked best when people followed proper behavior and respected order. His teachings are collected in a book called. 

What is the analects?

100

This legendary philosopher is traditionally linked to the beginnings of Daoism. His teachings are collected in a book called. 

What is the Daodejing?

100

This Legalist thinker wrote ideas that later influenced the Qin rulers.

Who is Han Fei?

100

This religion entered China from India along trade routes such as the Silk Road.

What is Buddhism?

100

This belief said a ruler had a moral duty to govern well or lose the right to rule.

What is the Mandate of Heaven?

200

Confucius taught that proper behavior and ritual conduct could create a peaceful and ordered society; this concept was called this.

What is li?

200

Daoism teaches that people should live in harmony with this universal “Way.”

What is the Dao?

200

Legalists believed a ruler should maintain order through strict laws and harsh systems of these two things.

What are rewards and punishments?

200

Many early Chinese people thought Buddhism was similar to this native Chinese philosophy.

What is Daoism?

200

This period of conflict in China encouraged the rise of new philosophies like Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism.

What is the Warring States Period?

300

According to Confucianism, society rests on these five important human connections. 

What are the Five Key Relationships?

300

Laozi believed rulers should govern with few laws and by practicing this idea, often translated as “action through nonaction.”

What is wu wei?

300

Unlike Confucians, Legalists argued that social order came more from this than from moral virtue.

What is authority / strict law?

300

This emperor, according to tradition, sent people to learn more after dreaming of a golden deity.

Who is Emperor Mingdi?

300

Chinese rulers built sections of the Great Wall primarily to defend against attacks from these groups to the north.

Who were the nomadic invaders?

400

In Confucian thought, rulers needed to have this quality in order to lead well and set the right example.

What is virtuous and or benevolence,

400

Daoist thought emphasizes the balance of these two opposite but connected forces.

What are yin and yang?

400

Legalism supported this productive occupation above all others and looked down on many other callings.

What is farming?

400

Buddhism appealed to many Chinese people after the Han collapse because it addressed these two big human concerns.

What are suffering and death?

400

The Terracotta Army was created to serve this ruler after death and guard him in the next world.

Qin Shi Huang?

500

This dynasty later adopted Confucianism as the official state belief system and used Confucian learning in government service.

What is the Han dynasty?

500

According to Daoism, people find peace and happiness by doing this rather than chasing power and wealth.

What is living in harmony with nature / becoming one with the Dao?

500

Han Fei believed rulers should trust no one because, in his view, the interests of rulers and subjects were this.

What is incompatible / in conflict?

500

This dynasty is considered the golden age of Buddhism in China.

What is the Tang dynasty?

500

Although Qin Shi Huang unified China, his dynasty survived for only this short amount of time after it began.

What is 15 years?

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