ap world history chapter 2 ancient china
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| 207299355 | Qin | a dynasty established in China in 221 BCE at the end of the Warring States period following the decline of the Zhou dynasty; fell in 207 BCE | 0 | |
| 207299356 | Shi Huangdi | founder of the brief Qin dynasty in 221 BCE; brutal but effective; built the Great Wall by forced labor from peasants | 1 | |
| 207299357 | Warring States period | an era between 402 BCE and 201 BCE; regional rulers were reduced to figureheads; Zhou system disintegrated | 2 | |
| 207299358 | Confucious | a philosopher who lived from 551 BCE to 478 BCE; emphasised personal virtue, ancestry, created a system of ethics, and believed in tradition | 3 | |
| 207299359 | Mencius | a famous Confucian philosopher who wrote and preached/taught much of the Confucian way of life in Classical China | 4 | |
| 207299360 | Sunzi | an ancient Chinese military general who most likely wrote The Art of War; completed in the Warring States period | 5 | |
| 207299361 | Laozi | probably lived during the 5th century BCE; a famous Daoist philosopher who stressed that nature contains a divine human impulse that directs all life | 6 | |
| 207299362 | Daoism | philosophy associated with Laozi; stressed need for alignment with Dao, or cosmic force | 7 | |
| 207299363 | Legalists | members of a philosophical system; pragmatic; believed an authoritarian state should be ruled by force; human nature is evil and must be contained | 8 | |
| 207299364 | Great Wall | Chinese defensive fortification intended to keep out the nomadic invaders from the north; initiated during Qin dynasty and reign of Shi Huangdi | 9 | |
| 207299365 | Liu Bang | ruler during the Han dynasty; known for his generosity and willingness; assembled 3000 men to gain title of prince during about 202 BCE | 10 | |
| 207299366 | Han | a Chinese dynasty that succeeded the Qin dynasty in 202 BCE; ruled for the next 400 years | 11 | |
| 207299367 | Scholar-gentry | a Chinese class created by the marital linkage of the local land-holding aristocracy with the office-holding shi; superseded shi as governors of China | 12 | |
| 207299368 | Secret societies | organizations whose activities are concealed from non-members; Yellow Turbans were an anti-Han support group because of rising taxes | 13 | |
| 207299369 | Forbidden City | an area of Beijing, China, that contains the former imperial palaces, to which entry was forbidden to all except imperial family members | 14 | |
| 207299370 | Wang Mang | a Han dynasty official who seized the throne from the Liu family; ruled from AD 9-23 | 15 | |
| 207299371 | Eunuchs | men sentenced to castration who were used as slaves in the Qin dynasty; also performed slave labor during the Han dynasty | 16 |
