Ancient China 2 Flashcards
What is the study of the basic ideas and beliefs of society?
Philosophy
What is a military leader who controls an area of land called?
Warlord
What belief states that the right to rule comes from the gods?
Mandate of heaven
What is the idea that children should honor and care for their parents?
Filial piety
What is a symbol or picture in a writing system that combines two or more pictographs to express an idea?
Ideographs
What is a symbol or picture in a writing system that represents an object?
Pictographs
Who are upper class citizens who hold wealth and power?
Aristocrats
What is a person that someone is descended from?
Ancestors
Which dynasty began the process of building the Great Wall of China?
Qin Shiuangdi
How did Han Wudi reform the government?
He established a competitive hiring system based on a person’s skill, not their status or wealth.
The ideas of duty to one’s family, practicing good actions, and government offices open to all people were practiced by what philosophy?
Confucius
Which major trade route spread goods from China to parts of the Middle East, Africa, and Europe?
Silk road
Did the Great Wall of China keep the Mongols from invading?
No
Who created Daoism?
Laozi
What is a state of perfect peace, according to Buddhism?
Nirvana
What job was held by the majority of people in China?
Farmers
Who created legalism?
Han Feizi
What needs to be followed in Buddhism to help a person reach Nirvana?
Give up all worldly desires and concerns
Did China share the process for making silk with other civilizations?
No they did not.
What philosophy combined the ideas of Daoism and Buddhism and taught that people should be concerned with life after death?
Neo Confucianism
Who created the philosophy of legalism?
Han Feizi
