Ancient China Flashcards
YELLOW RIVER/Huang He river
HELPED THEM DEVELOP AND GAVE THEM A GOOD PLACE TO FARM AND GROW CROPS
PHILOSOHPHIY
The study of basic questions about Human life used to guide the rulers of china
CONFUSISUM
it talks about the importance of relationships in the community
legalisim
believes that peace comes from having a strict and powerful government that hands out harsh punishments
warring states period
Time of civil war after the fall of the zhou dynasty, 7 dynasties fighting for control of china time of chaos in instability
Feudal system
Creates control by dividing land into smaller parts making it easier to rule
The rich controlled the poor
The Great wall
A barrier made by man of walls across China’s northern border
Protected the silk road and civilization.
$360b to build
2300yrs to build
Approximately 21,000 kilometers long
silk road
A trade network that stretched across Asia from China to Europe
Makes China powerful and rich
Interacted during trade= cultrual diffusion
Mandate of heaven
Guiding force for rulers believed that the king could rule as long as gods believed worthy.
dynasty
A line of rulers from the same family.
Dynastic cycle
The pattern of the rise and fall of dynasty’s
filial piety
Respect children owe their parents and ancestors
Wu Wei
A belief in Daoism about living in harmony and letting things take its natural course.
Yin Yang
Principal that opposites live together and depend on each other to live in harmony.
Confucius
He was the Founder of Confucianism based on respect and relationships ruler and subject, husband and wife, farther and son, older sibling younger sibling, Friend and friend.
Laozi
Founder of Daoism/Taoism it is based on living in harmony with nature and that life is full of opposites.
Han Fei
Founder of Legalism it is a belief that people are naturally selfish and peace comes with having a strict powerful government with harsh punishments.
peasants
someone that doesn’t have a lot of money and is not important.
Terra Cotta warriors
An army of warriors made from baked clay to protect Shi Huangdi after he died. Put next to his grave.
Empress Lu
She was the wife of the emperor and when he died she ruled in her sons name she ended up outliving her son and held on power crowning a couple infants and ruling in their place. cause a woman couldn’t rule.
Emperor Wudi
Unified China. To pay for military he took nobles property/raised taxes/took over businesses. Order the great wall to be built.
Di Xin
Lost mandate of heaven because he spent to much $ (wild parties) wine/women/wildness cruel. Committed suicide before being overthrown. Previous to suicide he defeated his enemies.
Yang of Sui
Born to a noble family and forced brother to commit suicide. He made a fairer system of picking gov officials and made them take tests to become an official and was assassinated 14yrs after he gained the throne and loved to read.
Yi
the right decisions for the greater good
Li
desribes the right actions you should take for the society
hsiao
that kids have to show respects to there parents
dao
“the way” all the things in the universe r connected
Wu Zeitan (Empress)
ONLY FEMALE EMPEROR,MADE A NEW DYNASTY AND WAS BRORN IN TO A RICH AND EDUCATED FAMILY.
caravan
a covered veicle with many cars pulled by camels or cattle
kangxi
EMPORER AT SEVEN DUE TO HIS FATHERS DEATH. LONGEST RAIN OF ANY EMPORER
curtaral diffusion
the spreading out and merging of pieces from different cultures
silk
mainly traded from china throhout the silk road
Confucianism
Founded by Confucius and is about relationships between different people.
Daoism
Founded by Laozi and is about living in harmony with nature.
Legalism
Founded by Han Fei and is the believes that people are naturally selfish and need strict rules with harsh punishments.
Yangtze/Chang Jiang river
Third longest river in the world and is 4000miles long and carries fertile yellow silt like the other yellow river.
Shi Huangdi
Unified China after the warring period
First emperor of China
Created a strict government using legalism
divided land into 36 sections to make it easier to rule
