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Unit Vocabulary
Ancient China
Red China
American Revolution
Dynasties
100
Story about early people in a society, usually performing extraordinary acts.
What is a myth?
100
How many thousand of years of Chinese history that there are.
What is 4000?
100
Leader of Chinese Revolution who governed China for over 25 years.
Who was Mao Tse Tung?
100
When the English tried to impose this without representation, the Americans got really mad.
What is taxation?
100
Dynasty that ended the Warring States Period and was famous for building the Great Wall.
What is the Qin?
200
Belief that evil in life outweighs the good and that bad things will generally happen.
What is pessimism?
200
Mythical first leaders of China that set example of virtuous behavior.
Who were the Sage Rulers?
200
Type of philosophy that government that won the Civil War is based on.
What is Communism?
200
British actions in this area before the Revolution led the new Americans to write the 4th Amendment.
What is unreasonable searches.
200
Dynasty that put together Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism and successfully ruled for over 400 years.
What is the Han?
300
Social system shaped like a pyramid where those lower owe allegiance and money to those above them.
What is feudalism?
300
Basis of political legitimacy starting in ancient China and continuing for thousands of years.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
300
Nickname given to the method of limiting information to Chinese citizens from the Internet.
What is the Great Firewall?
300
The British ruled that American colonists had to keep these in their homes.
What are British soldiers?
300
Dynasty that ruled with a feudal system. Its collapse led to the Warring States Period.
What is the Chou?
400
Government control of speech, the press and other public information.
What is censorship?
400
Three philosophies that made up the Han Synthesis?
What is Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism?
400
Program famous for inflated estimates of grain production, production of backyard steel and eventually famine that killed tens of millions.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
400
City where American colonial leaders met to write and sign the Declaration of Independence.
What is Philadelphia?
400
Dynasty known for trying to predict the future by heating bones or tortoise shells and trying to read the crack.
What is the Shang?
500
Government that tries to control every part of a person's life.
What is totalitarian?
500
Shi Huangdi buried thousands of these to serve him in the afterlife.
What are terra cotta soldiers?
500
Program led by young Chinese that tried to destroy Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits and Old Ideas.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
500
The British believed that since THIS event gave American colonists much more land, the costs should be shared; the Americans disagreed.
What is the French-Indian War?
500
The last Chinese Dynasty.
What is the Qing (or Ching)?