China
When one family rules over an area for a long period of time.
What is a dynasty?
Started by Confucius, goal was a just and peaceful society.
What is Confucianism?
Pictures that stand for words.
What are pictographs?
Highly trained military who kept order and control for the shogun.
What is samurai?
Honoring of ancestors through rituals, such as offering food and wine to the spirits of the dead.
What is ancestor worship?
China's Golden Age.
What is the Han Dynasty?
Started by Lao Tzu, preached a simple and natural way of life.
What is Daoism?
Characters that stand for words.
What are logographs?
Lords that followed the shogun.
What are daimyo?
Animal bones that have questions written on them that are heated and cracked over a fire and then read by an oracle.
What are oracle bones?
A network of trade routes across Europe, Africa, and Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
Started by Hanfeizi (280-233 BC), believed that people are naturally selfish; need to be forced to do the right thing
What is Legalism?
A system where the king gives land to the nobles, and peasants live on that land in exchange for a portion of their money.
What is feudalism?
Actual ruler of feudal Japan; head of the military.
What is the shogun?
At the top of feudal Japan's social pyramid, but didn't have much actual power.
What is the emperor?
River that ancient Chinese farmers settled by.
What is the Yellow River?
Vocab term used in Confucianism that means respecting your elders.
What is filial piety?
Ideas and knowledge spread from one culture to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
Means "Way of the Warrior;" unwritten moral code that all samurai followed.
What is Bushido?
Name any 1 of the four Chinese dynasties. For double points, name all 4.
What are Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han?
A power allegedly granted by the heavens that gave the Zhou family the right to rule.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
The energy that flows through the universe.
What is chi?
The spread of products, technology, information, and jobs across national borders and cultures.
Rogue samurai with no lord or master.
What are ronin?
Name any of the 4 countries that ancient China covered. For double points, name all 4.
What are China, Mongolia, North Korea, and South Korea?