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A love and respect for one's parents and ancestors
What is filial piety?
Term that ancient China used to refer to themselves. They believed they were the center of the Earth and increased ethnocentrism.
What is Middle Kingdom?
An ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean Sea extending some 6,440 km (4,000 mi) and linking China with the Roman Empire. Encouraged cultural exchange/diffusion of ideas and goods.
What is the Silk Road?
A time in a culture of high achievement in arts, literature, and science. Generally occurs in times of peace.
What is Golden Age?
A series of rulers from the same family.
What is Dynasty?
Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
What is Ethnocentrism?
A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from the gods.
What is Mandate of Heaven?
In Imperial China starting in the Han dynasty, it was an exam based on Confucian teachings that was used to select people for various government service jobs in the nationwide administrative bureaucracy.
What is Civil Service Exam?
A huge wall that is over 6000 miles long, which was built to keep the Mongolians in the north from invading China.
What is the Great Wall of China?
Soldiers and horses of the first Chinese emperor. The soldiers dated back to 210 B.C. and were discovered by a farmer. Their purpose was to help rule another empire with Shi Huang Di in the after life.
What is Terracotta Army?
In Daoist belief, complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. One is associated with masculine, light, and active qualities while the other with feminine, dark, and passive qualities.
What is Yin-Yang?
Practice in Chinese society, beginning in the Tang Dynasty, to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller, producing pain and restricting women's movement, which made it easier to confine women to the household. An emphasis on small size and delicacy was central to views of female beauty.
What is Footbinding?
A philosophy that adheres to the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius. It shows the way to ensure a stable government and an orderly society in the present world and stresses a moral code of conduct based on respect.
What is Confucianism?
Philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu, advocating for a simple, honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events.
What is Daoism?
Chinese naval explorer who sailed 7 voyages along most of the coast of Asia, Japan, and half way down the east coast of Africa.
Who is Zheng He?
A Chinese philosopher, also known as Kong Fuzi.
Who is Confucius?
The historical pattern of the rise and fall of Chinese dynasties
What is Dynastic Cycle?
The cutting out of flat areas into near vertical slopes to allow farming. Appears as steps cut into a mountainside.
What is Terrace Farming?
The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period.
What is Oracle Bones?
Chinese philosophy developed by Han Feizi; taught that humans are naturally evil and therefore need to be ruled by harsh laws.
What is Legalism?
The period from 475 BC until the unification of China under the Qin dynasty, characterized by lack of centralized government in China.
What is the Warring States Period?
The Chinese dynasty based on the Huang He river (1766-1122 BC)
What is the Shang Dynasty?
Founder of the Qin dynasty and China's first emperor, remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states.
Who is Shi Huangdi?
Ruler -> Subject
Husband -> Wife
Father -> Son
Older Bro -> Younger Bro
Friend <-> Friend
What are The 5 Relationships of Confucianism?
Dynasty that ruled China from 206 BC to 221. Some accomplishments are still used today, including paper and printing, compass, and porcelain.
What is the Han Dynasty?