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| 37950446 | WARRING STATES PERIOD | time of warfare between regional lords following the decline of the Zhou dynasty in the 8th century B.C.E. | 0 | |
| 37950447 | QIN DYNASTY | the Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established the first centralized imperial government and built much of the Great Wall | 1 | |
| 37950448 | QIN SHI HUANGDI | First Emperor; only emperor of Qin Dynasty; legalist; abolished feudalism and established a bureaucracy; anti-religion; building of Great Wall and other public works | 2 | |
| 37950449 | LEGALISM | In China, a political philosophy that emphasized the unruliness of human nature and justified state coercion and control. The Qin ruling class invoked it to validate the authoritarian nature of their regime. (p.52) | 3 | |
| 37950450 | CONFUCIUS | Chinese philosopher, administrator, and moralist. His social and moral teachings, collected in the Analects , tried to replace former religious observances | 4 | |
| 37950451 | DAOISM | philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events | 5 | |
| 37950452 | HAN DYNASTY | imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy | 6 | |
| 37950453 | LIU BANG | helped overthrow Qin dynasty, 1st emperor of the Han dynasty, was born a peasant and worked way up to emperor | 7 | |
| 37950454 | WUDI | chineese empire from 140-86 b.c; brought the han dynasty to its peak; expanded the chinese empire; made confusionism the state religion | 8 | |
| 37950455 | YELLOW TURBANS | Chinese Daoists who launched a revolt in 184 C.E., promising a golden age to be brought about by divine magic. | 9 |
