30309626 | laozi | founded the philosophy called Daoism | 30309626 | |
30309627 | mean people | people of the lowest status; did unskilled jobs; wore a green scarf to show their status; punished harsher for crimes; | 30309627 | |
30309628 | daoism | philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events | 30309628 | |
30309629 | Dynasty | line of rulers who come from the same family | 30309629 | |
30309630 | analects | a record of the words and acts of the central Chinese thinker and philosopher Confucius and his disciples | 30309630 | |
30309631 | five classics | Texts used to train scholars and civil servants in ancient China | 30309631 | |
30309632 | 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) | 30309632 | |
30309633 | Era of warring states | (402-201 BCE); regional rulers made their own armies and fought for control; during this time Zhou Dynasty died; | 30309633 | |
30309634 | mandarins | members of the elite class of civil servents in Chinese government | 30309634 | |
30309635 | patriarchalism | a sytem of social organization built around authority and power of fathers | 30309635 |
AP World Hist. Chapter 2 terms Flashcards
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