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| 80147953 | Qin | Dynasty that came to power in China in 221 B.C. under which the first true empire of China was created | 0 | |
| 80147954 | Confucius | Chinese philosopher (circa 551-478 BC) | 1 | |
| 80147955 | laozi | the "Old Master" who encouraged people to give up worldly desires in favor of nature; he founded Taoism (Daoism) | 2 | |
| 80147956 | zhou | People who overthrew the Shang Dynasty of China in 1122 B.C. | 3 | |
| 80147957 | shi huangdi | emperor of the Qin dynasty | 4 | |
| 80147958 | great wall | a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC | 5 | |
| 80147959 | han | Dynasty of rulers that ruled a centralized and growing empire in China | 6 | |
| 80147960 | mean people | people who performed unskilled jobs and suffered from the lowest possible status in Chinese society, required to wear green scarves | 7 | |
| 80147961 | daoism | philosophical system developed by of Laozi advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events | 8 | |
| 80147962 | silk road | an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (4,000 miles) | 9 | |
| 80147963 | dynasty | a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family | 10 | |
| 80147964 | analects | a record of the words and acts of the central Chinese thinker and philosopher Confucius and his disciples | 11 | |
| 80147965 | five classics | A corpus of texts considered authoritative by the early Confucians. They include poetry, historical, speeches, chronicles, ritual, and divination, Texts used to train scholars and civil servants in ancient China | 12 | |
| 80147966 | legalism | Chinese philosophy developed by Hanfeizi; taught that humans are naturally evil and therefore need to be ruled by harsh laws | 13 | |
| 80147967 | era of warring states | civil wars among Chinese that caused suffering and philosophy | 14 | |
| 80147968 | mandarins | members of the elite class of civil servents in Chinese government | 15 | |
| 80147969 | patriarchalism | a sytem of social organization built around authority and power of fathers | 16 |
