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Why did Cyrus the great rule with tolerance

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People would willingly serve in the military and they wanted to preserve their freedoms

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Who was Cyrus the great of Persia

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He defeated the neo-Babylonian's. 
Ended jews's captivity
Gave the Jews and military help to rebuild 
-allowed people religious freedom
- let people follow their own laws 
- ruled with tolerance
- people had to pay taxes
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Who is Cambyses

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Cyrus’s son

  • no religious tolerance
  • caused rerevolts in Egypt
  • ended the dynasty of Cyrus the great
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Who was Darius I?

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The administrative ruler

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What did Darius the first do?

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  • added western India to the Persian empire

- added Thrace in Europe this brought them into conflict with the Greeks causing the Persian war which the Greeks won

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How was Darius the first’s bureaucracy organized?

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Each province had:
A governor called a satrap
A tax collector
A military leader

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How did Darius the first of Persia keep control of a large territory

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  1. Imperial Bureaucracy
  2. Coins (from the Lydians)
  3. A road system ( the royal road)
  4. A strong military
  5. Standard weights and measures
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What brought about the fall of the Persian empire

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  1. Persian kings became greedy like Darius the second and Xerxes
  2. The Persians decided to go after Athens in 330 BC Greeks conquer them and Alexander the great burns Persepolis to the ground
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What is Zoroastrianism?

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Tenets: you are judged on your deeds, light versus dark, you have your free will to choose good or bad

Holy text: Zend Avesta

It was monotheistic and the universal all-powerful God’s name was Ahura Mazda.

The symbol is that weird guy was really big wings

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What was the Cyrus cylinder

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The Cyrus cylinder was the first human rights law it said into new form, that all had religious freedom regardless of skin color or things like that

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What was the capital of Persia

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Persepolis

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What was the Quanat system?

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A water system of underground rivers that are still used today. There are mountains to access the aquifers in the Persian empire

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What makes India a subcontinent?

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Indian subcontinent subcontinent is a landmass that is separated by the Himalayas Hindu Kush and Khyber Pass. It is isolated from the rest of Asia. This causes it to have a distinct culture.

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What are the two rivers in India

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The Ganges River and the Indus River

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What did the Aryans bring with them through the Khyber Pass?

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The Vedas, written in Sanskrit ( holy text of Hinduism)

  • the caste system
  • the Sanskrit alphabet
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What was the holy text of Hinduism

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The Vedas

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What was the purpose of the caste system

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Away of socially controlling people to do their duties and each level of the caste system was useful

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What was the influence of iron in India

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Iron tools allowed for improvements in agriculture such as inventing the plow

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It was family life like an ancient India? who is head of the family?

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The structure of the family was patriarchal, the oldest male dominated and only men could inherit property and only boys could be educated.

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What was the most basic unit of Indian society?

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The family

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What was sati

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Whenever a man died his wife would have to kill herself too to honor her husband

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Who founded the Mauryan Dynasty?

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Chandragupta Maurya

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What was the first classical civilization?

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The Mauryan dynasty

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How did Asoka become converted?

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First, Asoka was called the cruel king but the empire flourished under his rule.
- he fought at the battle of kalinga and he was so disturbed by the suffering there he converted to Buddhism

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What does Asoka do for the people?

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  • sets up free hospitals
  • vet clinics
  • parks and trees for meditation
  • total nonviolence
  • closed his old torture chambers
  • freed his prisoners and gave them back their land
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Who were Asoka’s missionaries and what did they do?

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Asoka send missionaries out through Asia to spread Buddhism they were greatly responsible for spreading Buddhism outside India

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Is Buddhism a religion?

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No. Boudin Buddhism is a philosophy because Buddha is not a God and he did not want to be worshiped. Buddhism is a way of life not a religion.

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What were Asoka’s columns?

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I shook as columns were inscribed pillars with teachings of Buddhism and laws combined to spread religion. They were topped with triple Lions as a symbol of Buddhism and also wheels of rebirth also, a symbol of Buddhism.

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What was the Kushan Kingdom?

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It was located in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and down into the Ganges valley in northern India.

The Kushan establish their empire after the fall of the Mauryan empire

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What was the silk Road ?

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A pathway of trade routes stretching all the way from China to route passing by India

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What religion was the Mauryan dynasty known for?

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Buddhism

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When was India’s Golden age

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During the Gupta Empire

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What was the second classical dynasty?

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The Gupta dynasty

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What makes a civilization a golden age?

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  • trade, and the resulting wealth(The group to sit right between China and Rome on the silk Road)
  • inventions and science and math (These advance the culture)
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Who founded the Gupta Empire?

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Chandragupta (No relation to maurya)

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What was the capital of the Gupta Empire

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Pataliputra (It was the same as the Mauryans’ samadragupta)

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What were the purpose of tributary states in the Gupta Empire? What did they do?

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-they had to pay resources to the Emperor in return for peace and no interference

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How did the Guptas become the most powerful force in the area?

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They traded with China southeast Asia and the Mediterranean

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The Guptas excelled in iron technology where did they get this technology from?

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The Zhou

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Who was Chandragupta II?

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  • the empire reached its greatest point under him
  • ruled peacefully for 40 years
  • ruled by marrying children off to other tribal leaders
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What were the Pilgrim routes?

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  • religious trade

- people set up trade stations with necessities for these religious pilgrims

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How did the Gupta Empire fall?

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  • the white Huns came from Turkey they had attacked Gupta before but were defeated
  • they brought an end to the Golden age of Gupta
  • persecuted Buddhists and reduced Pataliputra to a village and then they burnEd it down
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What were the holy texts of Hinduism

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The Vedas

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What were the Upanishads

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Part of the Veda and from the Hindu scriptures -they discuss philosophy

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What is a Ramayana?

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An ancient Sanskrit epic,

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What is Mahabharata?

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  • explains many moral principles of Hinduism - explains karma
  • took 800 years to write
  • a tragedy of heroes and gods and goddesses
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What were Stupas

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Shrines that house Buddhist relics (Mauryan )

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What were pagodas?

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Associated with Buddhism, evolved from stew pies, they’re usually Buddhist temples/shrines seen in China

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What were the scientific contcontributions of India?

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  • decimal system
  • concept of 0
  • pi
  • circumference of the earth
  • solar calendar with 365 days
  • proposed earth was spherical
  • plastic surgery and vaccines
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Order these:
Qin Dynasty
Han dynasty

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Qin dyn then Han dyn

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Who was leader of the Qin dynasty?

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Shi Huangdi

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What did Shi Huangdi do?

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  • connected Great Wall of china
  • established standards of:
  • laws
  • writing
  • currency
  • built roads
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What was the golden age of China?

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The Han dynasty

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What did Shi Huangdi do for China?

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  1. Made China the first empire
  2. Uses legalism to squash opposition, burned books and killed confuscists
  3. Killed Han fei zei
  4. Unified/ standardized:
    - laws
    - written language
    - currency
    - multiplication tables
    - transportation (roads)
    - a strong central bureaucracy
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Who made the terra cotta army?

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Shi Hunagdi

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Why did the Qin dynasty decline?

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The peasants rebelled because of the cruelty from construction products and the strict legalisms.

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What was the golden age of China?

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The Han dynasty

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Who was the founder of the Han dynasty?

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Liu Bang, but …

Emperor Wudi, the Martial Emperor

  • ends legalism
  • stops harsh taxes
  • brings back Confucianism
  • expands to North Korea, North Vietnam, Eastern Tibet, and Central Asia
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What are the Han inventions?

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Magnetic compass & seismograph
Silk
Porcelain 
Steel
Gunpowder 
Hot air balloons
Rudders to steer ships
Suspension bridges 
Chain pumps
Wood pulp paper 
Printing process
Wheelbarrow
Acupuncture
Herbal medicine 
Blood circulation
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Which Chinese dynasty was the first to connect to the outside world?

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The Han dynasty

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What are contributions of the Han Dynasty?

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  • civil service exams in the govt (meritocracy)
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What was the order of social classes in Han China?

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  1. Emperor
  2. Palace court and nobles and officials
  3. Artisans
  4. Merchants
  5. 5 soldiers
    - slaves
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Why were merchants and soldiers below peasants in Han china?

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In Confucianism, The philosophy of China, merchants are low because they are after money and that they want to change their place in society. Confucianism wanted you to be content with your birth. Peasants were considered the backbone of the society because they provide food. Warriors and soldiers could be for higher could change status and were not peaceful. That is why Confucianism did not favor them.

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What brought about the fall of the Han Dynasty?

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  • overtaxed peasants
  • peasant rebellions
  • cities fighting among themselves
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What does the caste system determine?

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  • occupation
  • who you marry
  • your education
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What was Jainism?

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Extreme nonviolence

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What religion had the 8 fold path?

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Buddhism

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How was Hinduism spread?

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Aryans brought Hinduism with them across the khyber pass. But Hinduism wasn’t meant to spread, because the caste system was only meant to provide rigid social structure.

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Which dyn in India had Hinduism?

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Gupta

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Describe the type of god in Hinduism.

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Many forms of one God.

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Describe the levels of the caste system.

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1 Brahmins: priests, closest to Brahman
2 Kshatriyas: warriors and princes
3. Vaisya: merchants, artisans, landowners
4. Shundra: (majority) the workers

Untouchables

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What was Brahma?
What was Brahmin?
What religion is this from?

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Brahman: God
Brahmin: priest

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What are some tenets of Hinduism?

Tenets

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Reincarnation
Karma:all actions in this life affect your next life
Dharma: your duty, rules you have to follow to have good karma
Samsara: being stuck in the cycle, never reaching moksha
Moksha: the ultimate goal/ heaven
The caste system

This was in the Gupta empire

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What was the holy text of Hinduism?

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The Vedas and the Upanishads

Ahimsa - nonviolence

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How did buddhism spread?

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Asoka’s missionaries
Spread to:
China: Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia
Southeast Asia: Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Korea, Japan

Message was popular because it has monasteries and women could go there to escape marriage. EGALITARIAN

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Who’s the founder of Buddhism?

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Siddartha Guatama

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What are some tenets of Buddhism?

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Buddha- not a god
Nirvana- enlightenment
Four Noble Truths- 1st sermon from Buddha
(How to escape suffering)
The 8 Fold Path- good things you should have

  • NO holy text (teachings of Buddha called Tripitaka)
  • NO CASTE SYSTEM
  • women could get an edu in convents
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What was the goal of Confucianism?

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Social order of family and government

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Who was the founder of Confucianism?

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Confucius

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What are the beliefs of Confucianism?

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  • 5 basic relationships
  • filial piety (respect for elders)
  • yin/ yang
  • text: the analects - teachings of Confucius
  • ancestor veneration
  • people are naturally born good (opposite of legalism)
  • benevolence- be selfless and kind to everyone
  • NO REINCARNATION
  • GOVT SERVICE HIGH HONOR
  • EDUCATION
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Founder of Daoism/ Taoism

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Laozi

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Tenets of Daoism

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  • nature love
  • yin yang ( like Confucianism)
  • harmony w nature
  • dao: the way
  • filial piety (like Confucianism)

Opposite of Confucianism:

  • should not work for govt
  • Shi Huangdi let them be bc they didn’t want anything to do with govt
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Who was founder of Legalism?

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Han Feizi

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Tenets of legalism

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  • humans are born evil and need to be controlled by law
  • state is more important than the individual
  • strict laws
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What are the things that Zhou dynasty in China contributed

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Silk, on the roads, blast furnace to make iron, going to money, irrigation, develop the crossbow, complex bureaucracy

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