Confucius
History
Key Terms
Confucian Texts
Bonus!
100
His main profession.
What is a teacher?
100
The dynasty Confucianism was founded in.
What is the Zhou dynasty? (or Spring Autumn period)
100
Heaven in Chinese.
What is tian?
100
What were the two main groups of texts?
What were the four books and five classics?
100
The golden rule.
What is treat others the way you want to be treated?
200
The name of his most famous student
Who is Mencius?
200
The reason it was called the Spring Autumn period.
What is Confucius' Spring Autumn Analect?
200
The thing that transfers from ruler to ruler.
What is the mandate of heaven?
200
The reason some of the classics were lost.
What was the burning during the Qin Dynasty?
200
The spread that caused many books, movies, and TV shows about Confucius.
What is Confucius fever?
300
The reason Confucius considered himself a failure.
What is not becoming a high ranking political advisor?
300
The positions exams were held for in the Han dynasty.
What are government positions?
300
The main virtue that encompasses many others.
What is ren?
300
The "sixth classic".
What was the classic of music?
300
The art that Confucius discovered and found the most important.
What is music?
400
Confucius' birth and death dates.
What are 551 and 479 BCE?
400
The dynasty the Cultural Revolution was similar to.
What was the Qin Dynasty?
400
Name all of the relationships.
What is father - son, ruler - subject, husband - wife, older brother - younger brother, and elder - junior (friend)?
400
The classic used for divination.
What is the I Ching?
400
The reason girls are considered inferior.
What is being unable to work as much, carry on the family name, and being unable to support parents in their old age?
500
The reason Confucianism grew and spread after his death.
What is many of his followers became high ranking government officials?
500
The day Confucius Day is on.
What is September 28?
500
Describe Li in your own words.
What is similar to interactions of people with other people, nature, and objects, or rites, customs, etiquette, and culture?
500
Name three of the five classics.
What are the classic of poetry, the classic of rites, the classic of documents, the I Ching, or the Spring and Autumn Annals?
500
The author and name of the book that made Confucianism widely available.
What are Yu Dan and Confucius from the Heart?
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