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| 7702690999 | Sima Qian | historian punished with castration during the Han dynasty | 0 | |
| 7702700478 | Kong Fuzi | Confucius, educator and political advisor cantankerous , only enlightened leadership by morally strong individuals was the hope for China | 1 | |
| 7702721337 | Analects | sayings of Kong Fuzi complied by his disciples | 2 | |
| 7702728285 | junzi | superior individuals, who took a broad view of public affairs and did not allow personal interests to influence their judgments | 3 | |
| 7702745035 | ren | sense of humility, kindness, benevolence | 4 | |
| 7702748935 | li | sense of propriety, courtesy, respect, deference to elders | 5 | |
| 7702753049 | xiao | filial piety, family obligation | 6 | |
| 7702776860 | Mencius | disciple of Kong Fuzi, believed man's nature was basically good, focused on ren. was the most authoritative of Kong Fuzi's disciples | 7 | |
| 7702791543 | Xunzi | Kong Fuzi's follower. believed man was selfish and pursued their own interests, focused on li | 8 | |
| 7702808394 | Laozi | founder of Daoism wrote Daodejing | 9 | |
| 7702818890 | Zhuangzi | named after the author, provided well-reasoned compendium of daoist views | 10 | |
| 7702827715 | dao | the way of the cosmos | 11 | |
| 7702833950 | Doctrine of wuwei | disengagement is the chief moral virtue | 12 | |
| 7702843951 | Legalism | doctrine of practical and efficient statecraft no concern with ethics or morality no concern with the principles governing nature | 13 | |
| 7702852758 | Shang Yang | chief minister to the duke of Qin state work an book on legalism, "The book of the Lord ___" executed along with his family | 14 | |
| 7702879433 | Han Feizi | most systematic of the legalist theorists, student of Xunzi. advisor in the Qin court | 15 | |
| 7702899968 | Qin dynasty | started the Great Wall, ruled with a centralized bureaucracy, standardized written language, built roads book burning | 16 | |
| 7702923404 | Qin Shihuangdi | first emperor of the Qin dynasty, had an elaborate tomb, terra-cotta soldiers | 17 | |
| 7702946854 | Xianyang | capital of the Qin dynasty | 18 | |
| 7702951346 | Liu Bang | first emperor of the han dynasty, experimented with between centralized and decentralized gov. oafish character, methodical planner | 19 | |
| 7702967181 | Han dynasty | longest and most influential dynasty | 20 | |
| 7702983133 | Chang'an | capital of former Han dynasty, cosmopolitan city | 21 | |
| 7703015470 | Luoyang | capital of the later Han dynasty | 22 | |
| 7703021090 | Han Wudi | Martial Emperor, occupied the imperial throne for 45 years, ruled with vision and vigor. expansion and centralization | 23 | |
| 7703035686 | Xiongnu | greatest foreign challenge that Han Wudi faced, nomadic people for the steppes of central asia who spoke turkish, superb horsemen, raided the empire | 24 | |
| 7703054844 | Ban Zhao | wrote lessons for Women, thought education should be provided to girls also | 25 | |
| 7703064075 | Wang Mang | socialist empire, over took the throne from the 2 year old han emperor | 26 | |
| 7703077203 | Yellow Turban Uprising | rebels wore a distinctive headgear | 27 |
