Vocab 1
A dust like material that gives the Huang River its yellow color.
What is loess?
This is the longest river in China.
What is the Chang/Yangtze River
The first dynasty of ancient China.
What is the Shang?
Who was the philosopher that gave ancient China many of its earliest beliefs?
Who is Confucius?
A government system set up with a strong leader and a strong legal system.
What is legalism?
When a society is in total order
This river gets its name from its yellowish hue.
What is the Huang/Yellow River?
This dynasty believed that they were given the Mandate of Heaven, which gave them ultimate authority.
What is the Zhou?
What two spirits had to be in balance to have harmony on earth.
What are Yin and Yang?
To ban books or critics that oppose or disagree with the emperor.
What is to censor?
A belief in how the world works and how you should live.
What is philosophy?
What two large deserts lie in the west and north of China?
The Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts
This dynasty ruled harshly and with legalism.
The Dao is a path that guides people to Yin and Yang to find harmony in life. Which philosophy had this belief?
What is Daoism?
To make certain policies so everything is similar. I.E. language, coin, and transportation.
What is standardization?
Military leaders that abused their power and rebelled against the emperor.
What are warlords?
This large ocean protects the eastern border of China.
This dynasty went back to Confucius ideals but kept the standardization practices that the previous dynasty had enforced.
Which of the 5 relationships in Confucianism is equal in life?
Friend to Friend
A messenger sent west to help unify the vast empire.
What is an envoy?
An early form of writing were a person would draw a story on a turtle shell and then interpret its message.
What is an oracle bone?
Not a natural mountain, what tall man made structure wells protect the northern border of China.
What is the Great Wall?
What is the Warring States Period?
This major religion made its way from India into China under the Han dynasty.
What is Buddhism?
What is civil service?