Chapter 2 Flashcards

270998674	mandate of heaven	a sophisticated political idea that makes it Classical. (that emperors were chosen directly from the gods)	0
270998675	son of heaven	what were emperors also known as in Classical China?	1
270998676	warring states period	the various warlords start to be followed more than the emperor. all of the warlords were fighting to claim the mandate of heaven	2
270998677	zhou	the dynasty that came after the shang from 1029-258 BCE	3
270998678	Qin	shortest dynasty. from 221-202 BCE	4
270998679	shi Huangdi	was a legalist (and really the only emperor of the Qin dynasty) who defeated all of the other warlords. punished people who did not support him	5
270998680	great wall	building of this started during the zhou. warlords would build them to protect their province. shi huangdi was the one who put it all together	6
270998681	terra cotta soldiers	8,000 statues made of terra cotta. soldiers of Shi Huangdi's army. the faces were of individual soldiers	7
270998682	Han	dynasty considered the "Golden Age" of classical CHina.	8
270998683	Wu Ti	went from legalist to confucian. was a "son of heaven" in the Confucian religion. was a superior man/father to all in China (most famous ruler of the Han dynasty)	9
270998684	silk roads	network of roads that goes all the way into the middle east. was created so that the Chinese cod trade luxury goods with India, the Middle East, and even the Roman Empire	10
270998685	family	basic political, social, and economic unit in China (then and today)	11
270998686	yin and yang	reflects the Chinese belief that the universe was a delicate balance between two forces. light/dark, earth/heaven, male/female	12
270998687	confucianism	is about how you impact society. all about folowing the rules to help societies	13
270998688	legalism	all about who has power. nobody cares about the individual but it is about the leader.	14
270998689	daoism	all about individual actions, no sense of community. did not have rules	15
270998690	confucius	his ideas were ethical and political NOT SPIRITUAL.	16
270998691	ren	sense of humanity, compassion, and empathy	17
270998692	li	propriety, courtesy, deference to elders (treating those that have come before you with respect)	18
270998693	xiao	filial piety. idea of family	19
270998694	work ethic	reverence for honesty and hard work.	20
270998695	Laozi	may have ben a contemporary Confucius; may or may not have existed. founder of Taoism (Daoism)	21
270998696	tao	"the way"	22
270998697	hanfeizi	contemporary of conducius. Legalism was adopted by the Qin dynasty in order to accomplish unification and the completion of mass projects	23
274344517	era of warring states	the period when the zhou dynasty disintegrated	24
274344518	analects	book that recorded Confucian doctrine	25
274344519	legalism	the alternate system of political thought that developed in China during the Qin and Han dynasties that had disdain fro Confucian virtues. advocated an authoritarian state that ruled by force	26
274344520	mean people	the social group in china that was at the bottom and was treated the worst	27