AP world history chapter 2 terms Flashcards

80147953	Qin	Dynasty that came to power in China in 221 B.C. under which the first true empire of China was created	0
80147954	Confucius	Chinese philosopher (circa 551-478 BC)	1
80147955	laozi	the "Old Master" who encouraged people to give up worldly desires in favor of nature; he founded Taoism (Daoism)	2
80147956	zhou	People who overthrew the Shang Dynasty of China in 1122 B.C.	3
80147957	shi huangdi	emperor of the Qin dynasty	4
80147958	great wall	a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC	5
80147959	han	Dynasty of rulers that ruled a centralized and growing empire in China	6
80147960	mean people	people who performed unskilled jobs and suffered from the lowest possible status in Chinese society, required to wear green scarves	7
80147961	daoism	philosophical system developed by of Laozi advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events	8
80147962	silk road	an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (4,000 miles)	9
80147963	dynasty	a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family	10
80147964	analects	a record of the words and acts of the central Chinese thinker and philosopher Confucius and his disciples	11
80147965	five classics	A corpus of texts considered authoritative by the early Confucians. They include poetry, historical, speeches, chronicles, ritual, and divination, Texts used to train scholars and civil servants in ancient China	12
80147966	legalism	Chinese philosophy developed by Hanfeizi; taught that humans are naturally evil and therefore need to be ruled by harsh laws	13
80147967	era of warring states	civil wars among Chinese that caused suffering and philosophy	14
80147968	mandarins	members of the elite class of civil servents in Chinese government	15
80147969	patriarchalism	a sytem of social organization built around authority and power of fathers	16