World History Chap. 4 Sec. 4
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- Confucius
- China's most influential scholar. Believed social order, harmony, and good government could be restored in CHina if society was organized around 5 basic relationships. He was philosopher; teach. His influence molded Chinese thought for centuries. Wrote book on thoughts called Analects.
- Filial piety
- Respect for their parents and elders
- Bureaucracy
- A trained civil service or those who run the government.
- Daoism
- A philosophy based on the ideas fo the Chinese thinker Laozi, who taught that people should be guided by a universal force called the Dao (Way).
- Legalism
- A Chinese political philosophy based on the idea that a highly efficient and powerful government is the key to social order.
- Yin and Yang
- In Chinese thought, the tow powers that govern the natural rhythms of life, with Yin being the feminine qualities in the universe and Yang being the masculine qualities
- Qin Dynasty
- A short-lived Chinese Dynasty that replaced the Zhou Dynasty in the 3rd Century. Ruler used Legalist ideas to subdue warring states and unify his country.
- Shi Huangdi
- Qin Ruler. Name means "First Emperor". Expanded China. Determined to unify China.
- Autocracy
- A government in which the ruler has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner.
- Laozi
- Chinese thinker who started Daoism.
- Zhou Dynasty
- Dynasty that ruled China from 1027 BC to 256 BC
- Confucianism
- Ethical sytem that promoted social order, harmony and good government.
- Social Order
- Having to do with relations between people.
- Natural Order
- having to do with relations between all living things.
- Legend
- A story handed down from earlier times, especially one believed to be historical.
- I Ching
- Book of change that was a book of oracles. People used book to answer ethical or practical problems.
- The Great Wall
- Wall that was built by hundreds of thousands of peasants. United Wall of 1400 miles.