Chinese Geography
Huang He and Chang Jiang
What are the 2 main rivers of China?
Government workers, merchants, and craftspeople lived in large houses in cities and peasants lived in in villages close to their farms, usually with 5 generations of a family.
What is the Han Dynasty?
Based off the teachings of this man, based on: respect your elders!
What is Confucianism?
A teacher and government official, believed Chinese society was broken down due to conflict and people should respect authority and one another.
Who is Confucius?
Cast Iron, seismograph, silk, improved farming equipment, the compass, and paper
What are things Ancient China gave to the world?
Why was China isolated from trading for so many years? Name 2 physical geographic features that caused this.
Gobi Desert, Himalayas
Started in 221 BC, Shi Huangdi established a legalist government, punishing all who disagreed with him
What is the Qin Dynasty?
Living in Harmony with nature, peace out!
What is Daoism?
Died in 210 BC & had thousands of Terracotta Warriors buried beside his tomb to protect him from evil in the afterlife
Who is Qin Shi Huangdi?
Officials running governmental offices or bureaus
What is a bureaucracy?
He made Xianyang the capital of the Qin dynasty and expanded the empire through conquest, imposed Legalism, and had the shortest of the 3 empires we studied.
Who is Qin Shi Huangdi?
Ruling lords fought among themselves under this dynasty
What is the Zhou Dynasty?
Created by Han Feizi because people were naturally bad and needed to be controlled through the threat of harsh punishment
What is Legalism?
A peasant from the Han kingdom who rose up & led a bloody rebellion that brought the collapse of the Qin dynasty, lowering taxes and ending harsh laws
Who is Liu Bang?
Exchanging, or trading goods or services due to lack of money or different currencies
What is bartering?
Built by Qin Shi Huangdi to protect China's northern border
What is the Great Wall of China
1. People believe that the gods approve of the new dynasty
2. Dynasty weakens
3. Disasters Occur
4. People believe that the gods no longer approve of the dynasty
5. Dynasty is overthrown
6. New Dynasty re-establishes order
7. Repeat
What is the Dynastic Cycle?
Respect children owe their parents and ancestors
The longest reigning emperor of Ancient China from 141-87 BC
Emperor Wudi!
"The Way," the driving force behind everything that exists, based on nature
What is Dao?
Gobi Desert, Himalayan Mountains, and the East China Sea - what are these & how did they impact Ancient China?
What are natural barriers for China?
Began around 1600 BC, created a writing system of 3,000 characters which became the basis of Chinese writing, worshiped their ancestors.
What is the Shang Dynasty?
Divine source of authority and the right to rule which led to a pattern of rise and fall of 3 dynasties
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Women had NO rights under this Dynasty (BOOOO!)
What is Han Dynasty?
"The man who says he can, and the man who says he cannot... Are both correct."
What is a Confucian saying?