Vocabulary
What is isolate?
It was based on the respect that children owed their parents.
What is filial piety?
Why did civilization in Ancient China first develop with relatively little cultural influence from the outside world?
What is because of the formidable geographical barriers that isolated China from the rest of the world?
The camels could endure the rough conditions of the routes and the caravans helped protect the traders from bandits.
What was the benefits from traveling in Camel caravans on the Silk Road?
People should respect authority and one another.
What is Confucius' philosophy?
Officials appointed by the emperor ran the government.
What is bureaucracy?
People on the Silk Road who traveled in groups.
What are caravans?
It is the idea that a king could rule only as long as the Gods believed he was worthy. If he ruled badly, the Gods would withdraw their approval and a good ruler would overthrow the government.
What is the mandate of heaven?
As people from different parts of the world came in contact with each other on the Silk Roads, they exchanged ideas, which greatly encouraged cultural diffusion.
How did trade on the Silk Roads encourage the process of cultural diffusion?
He wanted to remain in control, punish those who disobeyed his laws or were opposed to him, and keep a tight reign on those beneath him.
Why do you think Shi Huanghdi was drawn to legalism rather than Confucianism?
The traders often exchanged items for other goods.
What is barter.
He divided his empire into 36 areas governed by officials he had selected.
How did Shi Huanghdi organize his empire?
The trade of goods it promoted- particularly China's silk- must have brought in a great deal of wealth and bolstered China's economy.
What role do you think the Silk Roads played in the Han dynasty’s prosperity?
What is dynastic cycle?
He built the Great Wall of China to protect China's weak Northern border from attack from the Nomadic tribes from Central Asia.
Why did Shi Huanghdi build the Great Wall of China?
They were poor farmers.
What is peasants?
The only appointed government officials who had passed an exam that tested their knowledge of Confucianism.
How did Han rulers bring Confucianism into their government?