Ancient China

Question 0

Oracle bones

Answer 0

Early Chinese religion included consulting gods by asking them questions and then interpreting cracks in bones or tourtière shells

Question 1

What is loess

Answer 1

Yellowish silt deposited by the yellow river that gives it the name.

Question 2

Mandate of Heaven

Answer 2

This is a non physical thing that gave leaders religious justification for ruling. Ancestor spirits could take it away which is shown through natural disaster. Created by the Zhou

Question 3

Dynastic cycle

Answer 3

This was a cycle that was followed when dynasties rose and fell from power

Question 4

Feudalism

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A binary society based on land. The king rented the nobles land in exchange for some of the taxes they collected. Peasants worked the land and were on the bottom.

Question 5

Who was Confucius

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An influential scholar that tried to reform society by creating the confusion religion

Question 6

What is filial piety

Answer 6

The idea within the five relationships of confusionism of rank and lower rank has to show respect to the higher rank

Question 7

Bureaucracy

Answer 7

Government organization where there are people in a government salary

Question 8

What is Taoism

Answer 8

A Chinese religion that emphasizes balance and harmony with nature. Never used in government.

Question 9

What is legalism

Answer 9

A religious kind of philosophy where laws are key and to be followed at all cost. Strict punishments for breaking laws and rewards for following them. School is an example of legalist society.

Question 10

What is ‘ I Ching’

Answer 10

A Chinese oracle book

Question 11

Yin and yang

Answer 11

The two opposite powers that govern the natural world. Yin represents the feminine qualities and Yang represents the masculine qualities.

Question 12

Shi Huangdi

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The only ruler of the Qin dynasty. He centralized the government and practiced Autocracy. Built the Great Wall of China.

Question 13

Autocracy

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A government of one. A ruler has unlimited power and he uses it arbitrarily. A lot gets done.

Question 14

Centralized government

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A government where all the leaders are in one place.

Question 15

Empress Lü

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Son was an emperor in name, but she held the real power. She had friends in court. She retained control by naming infants who kept mysteriously dying as her successor. Her power went against confusion ideologies adopted by the previous emperor. She lived durin the Han dynasty.

Question 16

Wudi

Answer 16

Called the martial emperor. Lived during the Han dynasty.
1 He created confusion schools that cost money
2 students went to the schools
3 students took exams
4 if they passed, they were hired as civil servants
5 civil servants get a voice an money
6 gentry class forms

Question 17

Liu Bang

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Gained power by fighting Xiang Yu. Lived through the Qin dynasty and became first emperor of Han dynasty. Adopts confusionism for government.

Question 18

Civil service

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Employees hired by the government after passing exams.

Question 19

Confusionism

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A Chinese religious philosophy. Has five relationships. The relationships have rank and are mutual but not equal

Question 20

What are the five relationships in confusionism

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Friend and friend
Father and son
Husband and wife 
Ruler and subject
Older brother and younger brother

Question 21

Monopoly

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One person or organization such as the government control all of the buying and selling of a certain good or service.

Question 22

Assimilation

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When a person or group learn to fit in with another culture.

Question 23

Sima Quan

Answer 23

A historian lived in the Han dynasty.

Question 24

Ban Zhou

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A female historian.

Question 25

Tang Taizong

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First emperor of the Tang Dynasty. He re conquered lost land and Korea.

Question 26

Wu Zhao

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Was the real power behind weak emperors. Was the only women to claim the title of emperor. Lived during the Tang Dynasty.

Question 27

Sui Wendi

Answer 27

United north and south China. Built up a strong central government. Started the Sui dynasty. Repaired the Great Wall and built the Grand Canal.

Question 28

Manchuria

Answer 28

The ruling party during the Qing dynasty

Question 29

Movable type

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Blocks of metal and wood that contain a single character. These blocks can be arranged to make a page for printing.

Question 30

Li Bo

Answer 30

A Tang Dynasty poet that write about life’s pleasures.

Question 31

Du Fu

Answer 31

A Tang Dynasty poet that wrote about confusionism.

Question 32

Gentry

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The class of people who moved up from peasantry to civil service work through education in confusion schools

Question 33

Foot binding

Answer 33

The wrapping of a young girls foot so that it becomes deformed into the shaper of a lotus petal. This was done by the gentry class to assert male dominance and show status.

Question 34

Mencius

Answer 34

A confusion philosopher

Question 35

Laozi

Answer 35

The founder of Taoism