Dynastaies Flashcards
(21 cards)
Chinas Greatest Achivments
great wall,forbidden city,terracotta army,inventions
Why did china call themselves the middle kingdom
they thought they were at the center of the world because they were by less civilised people.
Silk road
Trade routes that connected china to the rest of the world
What is confucism
A philosophy
Founder of confucism
Confucius(greatest philopsher and teacher
Book of confucism
Analects
Main ideas of confucism
Created rules for society
-Five relationships (superior and inferior)
-Valuing education, morality, and hard work
Taoism
Philopshy and relegion
Taoisms important philospher
Lao Tzu
Book of taoism
Tao Te Ching
Main ideas of taoism
- People should live in harmony with nature (“go with the flow”)
- Balance of opposites (yin/yang)
Buddism
Major world relegion
Founder of buddism
Siddartha
Main ideas of buddism
-Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path- followed to end suffering
-Middle Way- living life without extremes
The century of humilation was when
China suffered from imperlism,revolutions and civil war
The last dynasty was
Qing,Invaded from the north
Factors that led up to the fall of the dynasty
foreign dynasty,self isolation,rejection of west technology,European imperialism,overpopulation,famine
the opium war was caused by
british selling opium and the chinese destroyed a shipment of it
unequal treaties was when
china had to pay for the war,and let countries have spheres of influence in the country
hong kong
british colony till 1997
the chinese revolution
ended the qing dynasty, it also was a short-lived republic
