Vocab
a hard gemstone often used in jewelry
What is Jade?
a barrier made of walls across China’s northern frontier
What is the Great Wall?
In this dynasty Farmers paid most of the taxes to the upper classes in society using oracle bones, prisoners, animals, and shells.
Shang society valued the connection between one generation and the next and therefore people worshiped their these.
What are ancestors?
Zhou leaders based their right to rule on this.
What are the heavens?
a person of high rank who owned land by owed loyalty to the king
What is a lord?
moral values
What is ethics?
This is the geographical feature south of the Tibetan Plateau forms part of China’s southern border.
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
This is the 1st dynasty.
What is the Shang?
People should be respectful and loyal to their family members. Leaders should be kind and lead by example. Learning is a process that never ends. Heaven expects people to behave well and act morally. These are all examples of this man's teachings.
Who is Confucius?
a philosophy based on the ideas of Confucius that focuses on morality, family order, social harmony, and government
What is Confucianism?
a farmer with a small farm
What is a peasant?
the most famous Daoist teacher that taught that people should not try to gain wealth or seek power
Who is Laozi?
This dynasty is 2nd?
Who are the Zhou?
This philosophy stresses living in harmony with the Dao, the guiding force of all reality and that people should avoid interfering with nature or each other.
What is Daoism?
a device that uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day
What is a sundial?
the Chinese belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled
What is Legalism?
title meaning “first emperor” given to a Qin king named Yin Xheng who succeeded in unifying China
Who is Shi Huangdi?
This Dynasty is 3rd.
Who are the Qin?
THis monarch was known for following Legalist thought and ruling as an absolute monarch.
Who is Shi Huangdi?
a network of trade routes that stretched across Asia from China to the Mediterranean Sea
What is the silk road?
the spread of ideas, goods, and technology from one culture to another
What is diffusion?
the most influential teacher in Chinese history that taught that the Chinese needed to return to ethics and moral values
Who is Confucius?
This dynasty is the 4th Dynasty.
What is the Han?
Shi Huangdi is known for many things including
Unified China for the first time
-Created a national set of laws
-Created a common language
-Created a common currency
-Built and improved roads
-Built and improved irrigation systems
-Built and connected canals and waterways
He is also known for building this series of defenses along China's northern border.