Vocab
An official order to do something.
What is a mandate?
Long distances and natural barriers.
What two important factors limited Ancient China's contact with outsiders?
Ruler and ruled, Father and son,Husband and wife, Older brother and Younger Brother, Friend and friend
What are the 5 human relationships, According to Confucius?
The Han Dynasty.
What dynasty expanded the silk road?
Having or showing high moral standards
What is virtuous?
Positive: Fewer wars/invasions and fertile soil Negative: Less trade and unaware of what's happening in the outside world.
How did geography influence Ancient China's development both positively and negatively?
The natural order of the universe; the way things are supposed to be.
What is the "Tao" according to Taoism?
Mountains, brutal winds, poisonous snakes, pirates, and bandits.
What kinds of dangers did Silk Road traders face?
What is paranoid?
They called themselves The Middle Kingdom.
What did the people in Ancient China call themselves because they were so sure that they lived at the center of the world?
Bring peace, Reform rulers, Bring prosperity/success, and Bring stability.
What were the goals of Confucius's teachings?
Famine, flood, earthquake, disease, and invasions.
What caused and emperor to be stripped of the Mandate of Heaven?
An ancient trade route between China and Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
Destructive floods would come without warning.
Why is the Yellow river also called "China's Sorrow"?
A ruler should establish strict laws and enforce them with harsh punishments.
What do Legalists believe about government?
An ancient Chinese philosophical concept that emperors the right to rule from heaven. If he does not fulfill his obligations as emperor, then he loses the right to be emperor.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
A valuable cloth, originally made only in China from threads spun by caterpillars called silkworms.
What is Silk?
Gunpowder, wheelbarrows, umbrellas, compasses, and the seismograph.
What are some Chinese inventions?
An ancient Chinese philosopher whose teachings became part of the government system.
What is Confucius?
Silk, porcelain, spices, ivory, and ideas.
What did the Chinese have that the Silk Road traders wanted?