7523600510 | warring states period (1) | -between Zhou and Qin -very chaotic/ fighting | 0 | |
7523664666 | warring states period (2) | -people scared of death -political instability | 1 | |
7523674987 | confucianism (1) | -created by Confucius -relationships, rituals important -morality in conduct -conduct will prepare for place in gov. | 2 | |
7527182081 | Confucius | -created Confucianism -tried to reshape Zhou period & stop the fighting -brought logic and peace to land -benevolent | 3 | |
7527290645 | Analects | -Confucian books -names of books -Book of Songs -Book of Spring and Annals -Book of Changes | 4 | |
7523721170 | confucianism (2) | -family important -each person in family has a specific duty -duty based on age and gender -reverence: respecting family & elders extremely important | 5 | |
7523796811 | filial piety | relationship between parents and their children | 6 | |
7523806702 | confucianism (3) | -idea of home relationships balanced workplace will be productive & balanced -a superior individual runs gov. w/ your best interest at heart -run w/ benevolence -> respond w/ respect | 7 | |
7523894752 | legalism (1) | -came from 'Hundred Schools of Thought' period -wanted to end fighting between 3/4 centuries -philosophical & political -Lord Shang ruled | 8 | |
7527157441 | Lord Shang | -head of legalism -believed Confucianism was naive -told people to trust their judgements | 9 | |
7523988917 | legalism (2) | -effective but unpopular (oppressive) -agriculture & military important -chaos eliminated by powerful, merciless state | 10 | |
7527234256 | Shi Huangdi of Legalism | made legalism happen | 11 | |
7527140010 | how long was legalism impacted | short term impact | 12 | |
7524418827 | Xia Dynasty | -on Yellow & Yangtze Rivers -Emperor Huangdi (aka Yellow Emperor) -might not have existed | 13 | |
7527120651 | inventions of Xia Dynasty | wheeled vehicles, silk making, armor, pottery making, ships | 14 | |
7527339493 | oracle bones | first system of writing found on bones during Xia Dynasty | 15 | |
7527446625 | Shang Dynasty (1) | -middle of Bronze Age -bigger than Xia -feudalistic/ decentralized gov. -main God Shang Di | 16 | |
7527644783 | how land was given out | vassal- lord- vassal /. emperor --- lord- vassal \ vassal -lord- vassal | 17 | |
7527596947 | vassel | person who gave land | 18 | |
7527466109 | what was the Bronze Age | when bronze represented luxury and power | 19 | |
7527519408 | bronze in Bronze Age made what | -horse drawn chariot -military weapons -vessels | 20 | |
7527735924 | Shang Dynasty (2) | -veneration of ancestors -big on filial piety -wrote on oracle bones -developed written language -had class differentiations | 21 | |
7527774533 | Zhou Dynasty (1) | -overthrew Shang in 11th century BCE -overthrown by a Zhou member -new ruler took throne but not everyone liked him -could take decades for a ruler to gain control | 22 | |
7527794281 | how Zhou overthrew Shang | -Zhou noticed Shang leader dishonoring Gods by his behavior -Shang leader drank, took bribes, & corrupt -Gods withdrew mandate from Shang & gave it to Zhou -Zhou fulfilled duties | 23 | |
7527858875 | Mandate of Heaven | -given right of rule by a God named Heaven | 24 | |
7527872412 | Zhou Dynasty (2) | -emperor can choose anyone he wants to become next emperor (even if not in bloodline) -normally a son in bloodline takes throne next | 25 | |
7527898862 | Duke of Zhou | first Zhou emperor | 26 | |
7527904733 | first four emperors called | Sage Kings | 27 | |
7527914236 | economy and society of Zhou Dynasty (1) | p |. p | p -|-----|- p |. e | p -|-----|- p |. p | p "well- field system" | 28 | |
7527997496 | economy and society of Zhou Dynasty (2) | -land fallow and yield -silk luxury good -cultivation of wet rice -iron -pop growth -created money economy | 29 | |
7528015846 | land fallow | land not used for harvest | 30 | |
7528015847 | yield | harvesting too much in one place so soil has no more nutrients | 31 | |
7528036313 | 100 schools era | -associated w/ legalism -many ways to get out of warring states period | 32 | |
7528056663 | Art of War | -written by Sun Tzu -contemporary of Confucius | 33 | |
7528080308 | Daoism (1) | -aka Taoism -similar to Confucianism -'Dao' means path -nature oriented -strike balance w/ nature -tranquil | 34 | |
7528162545 | who founded Doaism | Lao-Tzu | 35 | |
7528173639 | Doaism (2) | -people turned away from society -argued education, knowledge are obstacles from continuing your path -fundamental understanding of 'Dao' -influence over people | 36 | |
7528198495 | What does Dao say | -do no harm to any living creature -do not fear death -world is always changing | 37 | |
7528211972 | symbol of Daoism | Yin and Yang (Universities of Opposites) | 38 | |
7528219599 | Yin on Yin and Yang | -black side -darkness -cold -earth;moon -feminine -passive -weak | 39 | |
7528245587 | Yang on Yin and Yang | -white side -light -warmth -heaven;sun -masculine -active -strong | 40 | |
7528285568 | 5 principle relationships of confucianism | 1.ruler -> subject 2.father -> son 3.husband -> wife 4.older brother -> younger brother 5.older friend -> younger friend | 41 | |
7528318720 | Chinese caste system | 1. scholar gentry 2. peasants 3. artisans 4. merchants | 42 | |
7528336213 | idea behind Chinese caste system | -peasants valued more than artisans or merchants bc they worked harder than artisans or merchants | 43 | |
7528348098 | Mencius (1) | -disciple for Confucius -people either born good or bad -most people born good -someone does something bad -> education answer not punishment | 44 | |
7528397595 | Mencius (2) | -can bring ones self back from doing something bad -moral psychology | 45 | |
7528395050 | Qin Dynasty (1) | -established china's 1st empire -Shi Huangdi ruled -legalist gov | 46 | |
7528654287 | Shi Huangdi | -ruler of Qin Dynasty -had over 7000 terra-cotta warriors as a protective army in afterlife -used real people as models -extravagant and powerful | 47 | |
7528583339 | bad things of Shi Huangdi | -abolished local laws and created uniformed laws -appointed his own people so they follow new laws -killed people who disagreed w/ him -burned all Confucianism books -killed people for examples | 48 | |
7528629641 | good things of Shi Huangdi | 1. expanded size of china 2. gave peasants right to own land 3. standardized Chinese scripts 4. created units and measurements | 49 | |
7528795092 | Qin Dynasty (2) | -centralized bureaucracy -many people killed or exiled by Shi Huangdi | 50 | |
7528673813 | end of Qin Dynasty | -Shi hangdi dies -eunuchs see opportunities | 51 | |
7528725847 | Zhau Gho | -eunuch that formed relationship w/ Shi Huangdi -forged Shui Huangdi will -wanted to become ruler | 52 | |
7528684497 | eunuchs | castrated people that serve as guards for people | 53 | |
7528786780 | Han Dynasty (1) | -Liu Bang -gov control took control of corrupt merchants -irrigation techniques | 54 | |
7528830195 | Liu Bang | -1st emperor of Han -moved capital Chang'an -recentralizes bureaucracy -lowered taxes -brought back confucianism | 55 | |
7528780013 | Han Dynasty (2) | -Buddhism introduced along Silk Roads -expanded Chinese empires -eventually transporting goods from Asia -revival of Chinese landscapes | 56 | |
7528811450 | Silk Roads | trade routes across the east | 57 | |
7528850998 | Han Emperor Wudi | -most significant Han emperor -wanted to clean up gov w/ people who do not belong in their gov place -people had to take service tests to see if they fit into gov potentials -education process failed -> created universities | 58 | |
7528876472 | Han Dynasty (3) | -colonized Machuria, Vietnam, -Pax Sinica: economy grew -peasants improved lively hood -silk production increased -diseases (smallpox, measles, bubonic Plague) dropped pop. on trade routes | 59 | |
7528960677 | Han Dynasty (4) | -economically small landowners could not pay off land anymore -larger landowners took their land | 60 | |
7528990078 | Han Dynasty (5) | -Wang Mang wanted to fix land probs. -took back stolen land -landowners unhappy & rebels -peasants team up -emperor overthrow | 61 |
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