The Role of Women
What are the expected roles and behaviours for a woman?
A woman’s duties are domestic, including cooking, preparing wine, caring for her parents-in-law, and making clothes.
What did Qin Shi Huang unite?
The warring states of China.
Did Qin Shi Huang follow Confucianism?
No
What is a ruler who holds absolute power and exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way, often ignoring laws, justice, and the welfare of the people called?
A tyrant.
What does 'Qin' represent in the 'Qin Dynasty?'
The Qin family
In times of hardship women could be sold off, or girls killed to reduce the number of mouths to feed. Why?
Girls and women were seen as less economically valuable, especially in times of scarcity.
Did Qin Shi Huang appoint his ministers based on their family connection or their merit?
Their merit.
What did Li Si recommend Qin Shi Huang do to the followers of Confucianism?
That they be executed.
What is someone who has original and inspiring ideas about the future, often able to see possibilities and innovations others do not called?
A visionary
Name the dynasty cycle.
New emperor, lives improve, people get ignored, natural disaster, revolution
What evidence is there that women's lives improved over time?
Sources show that women had began learning to read and engaged in different hobbies.
What did Qin Shi Huang standardise throughout unified China which ensured the market could become economically stable?
Weights, money and writing.
*not about Confucius
There is a social class that directly works with two other social classes. What is this group and what other social classes do they work with on a constant basis?
FOR DOUBLE POINTS!!
What two other groups work closely with others?
Nobels
- Inform the Emperor
- Rent land to Peasant Farmers
Artisans - Merchants
Scholars - Emperor
Using slaves to complete large building works causing many to live and die in harsh conditions is an example of a which type of ruler?
The belief that a ruler’s right to govern comes from a divine source, and that the heavens would support a just and virtuous ruler, but withdraw their support from a corrupt or failing one is called what?
The Mandate of Heaven
How did the belief that education was wasted on women affect their roles in ancient Chinese society?
Unable to read or write, this reinforced their primary roles as wives and mothers, with little opportunity to change this role in society.
Li Si recommended that Qin Shi Huang do something in order to stand out from others and not be compared to the past. What was it?
Burn books that were not about him.
What are the five relationships in Confucianism?
Ruler (Prince) and subject, Father and Son, Husband and Wife, Older Brother and Younger Brother and Friend and Friend.
A visionary.
The rise and fall of Chinese dynasties, where a new dynasty gains the Mandate of Heaven, prospers, and eventually falls due to corruption or misrule, leading to the rise of a new dynasty is called what?
The dynastic cycle.
Who's reign as emperor demonstrates a rare case of female power and influence?
Empress Wu Zetian
What is a Chinese philosophical belief that emphasizes strict laws, harsh punishments, and centralized control as necessary to maintain order and strengthen the state. It prioritizes the rule of law over moral or ethical considerations.
Legalism
What is the role of women in Confucianism?
Fulfil the domestic roles and to be obedient to male family members, following the "three submissions" to their father, husband, and son.
Centralising the government, appointing people based on merit and standardising measurements are all examples of what kind of leadership?
Visionary.
How can the Mandate of Heaven be lost?
A ruler becomes corrupt, fails to govern justly, or faces disasters.