Dynasties
What is a dynasty?
A series of rulers from the same family
relatives who have lived before you (and were sometimes worshipped) were called:
Ancestors
(Vocab) The emperor of the Qin dynasty divided the land into 36 provinces, or __________.
territories
What is it called when appointed officials are trained to run different parts of the government?
Bureaucracy
Dialects are:
Different forms of the same language.
List the 5 great dynasties
Xia
Shang
Zhou
Qin
Han
A religion based on Siddhartha Gautama, focused on moderation and rebirth.
Buddhism
The highest mountains in the world
The Himalayas
Censorship controls:
what people see, hear, write, and read
the first dynasty of China
The Xia
The seismograph was made in the _______ dynasty.
Han
Buddhism spread from _______ to China along the Silk Road
India
The largest Chinese desert
The Gobi
What was mandate of heaven?
The Zhou created the Mandate of Heaven, the idea that there could be only one legitimate ruler of China at a time, and that this ruler had the blessing of the gods. They used this Mandate to justify their overthrow of the Shang.
A(n) _______ is a prediction about the future.
Oracle
This ruler named himself Qin's first emperor, believing the dynasty would last 10,000 years. What was his name?
Qin Shihuangdi
Confucius taught that there are 5 basic relationships. what are 2?
Husband/wife, Parent/child, big sibling/little sibling, friend/friend, ruler/subject
The two main Chinese rivers
Huang He/Yellow River, Yangzi/Chang Jiang
Book burnings happened during the _____ dynasty, because the emperor's advisor hated Confucius's teachings
Qin
Silk came from what animal?
Silk worms/moths
What river was called China's Sorrow and why?
The Huang He/Yellow River, because it flooded farms and homes
Philosophy that uses strict laws and harsh punishments; it teaches humans are inherently evil.
Legalism
The Silk Road traveled through many places. What were 2 countries (Besides China) that traded on the route?
Syria, Rome, India, Afghanistan
Describe Feudalism.
Nobles own the land given by the government, and have peasants work on them.
The _________ religion believed in finding harmony with feelings and nature.
Daoist