600 BCE-600 CE Vocabulary

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Scholar-Gentry

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In China, the class of prosperous families next in wealth below the rural aristocrats from which the rulers drew the administrative personnel. Respected for their education and expertise, these officials became a privileged group and made the government more efficient and responsive than in the past

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Classic, Classical

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Traditional, relating to a form or system felt to be of first significance before modern times

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Mandate of Heavan

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In Chinese history, the divine approval thought to be the basis of royal authority

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Dynastic Cycle

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The historical pattern of the rise, decline, and replacement of dynasties

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Filial Piety

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Respect for parents and elders

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Empire

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A political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are governed by a single ruler

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Aristocracy

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Land-owning families who make up a small portion of the population

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Direct Democracy

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A government where all citizens rule directly rather than through elected or appointed representatives

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Citizen

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A member of a state; especially one entitled to the rights and privileges of a freeman

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Rational Thought

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To base ones’s opinion on evidence and reason rather than superstition or commonly accepted beliefs

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Philosopher

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Thinkers who use logic and reason to investigate the nature of the universe, human society, and morality

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Tyranny

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Form of government in which ruling power is in the hands of a person who has seized control through force or the manipulation of social groups

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Oligarchy

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Form of government in which ruling power is in the hands of a few leaders

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Barbarians

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Members of society considered primitive, savage, etc.

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Paterfamilias

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The legal head of the extended family in Rome and the only person who could own property. Made all the decisions affecting his wife, children, and son’s wives

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Latifundia

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A large-landed estate of Ancient Rome typically worked by slaves

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Autocracy

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A government in which the ruler has unlimited power and uses it in any manner he chooses

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Dictator

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A political leader given absolute power to make laws and command the army for a limited time

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Republic

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A form of government in which power is in the hands of representatives and leaders are elected by the people

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Civil Service

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The administrative departments of the government, especially those in which employees are hired on the basis of their scores on examinations