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- Ming Time
- 1368-1644
- Analects
- a record of the words and acts of Confucius and his disciples
- Laozi
- the "Old Master" who encouraged people to give up worldly desires in favor of nature
- Mencius
- Disciple of Confucius, Heaven "see with the eyes and hears with the ears of the people"
- Sui Time
- 581-681
- Legalism
- Legalism taught that actions that help the emperor and the state should be encouraged by a stirct system of rewards and severe punishments
- Yuan Time
- 1279-1368
- Qing Time
- 1644-1911
- Zhou Enlai
- At the Annual Festival Honoring the Dead, thousands of mourners went to Tiananmen Square to pay their respect to this man, who died earlier in January, 1976.
- Red Guards
- The youths who led Mao's Cultural Revolution. Wore red arm bands and carried his book. Terrorized Chinese citizens
- Song Dynasty
- Literature and Philosophy. Movable type, gunpowder, magnetic compass. Kaifeng, the capital where the record of Jewish inhabitation astonishes people.
- extraterritoriality
- Westerners accused of crime in China; could be freed by their country's court
- Jiang Zemin
- Successor of Deng from 1997 to 2002; continued economic reforms and liberalization
- Qin Time
- 221 BCE - 206 BCE
- Yuan Dynasty
- Mongolian conqueror, Kublai Khan and Itialian traverler Marco Polo
- Qin Dynasty
- China first united. Everything was standardized.Terracotta Warriors and the Great Wall were built.
- Tang Time
- 618-907
- Han Dynasty
- Buddhism introduced. Silk road. Invention of paper.
- Highest Social Class
- gentry: large land holders and government officials
- Guomindang
- Nationalist party formed by Sun Yixian
- Han
- 95% of population
- Tang Dynasty
- Most prosperous and romantic. Political and Economic success. Wu Zetian-only queen in Chinese History
- Marco Polo
- went to china, went to war against the kahn's relatives, wrote a book of his travels
- Qing Dynasty
- Manchu, last dynasty in China. Opium Wars. Last Emperor. Boxer Rebellion. Taiping Movement. Foreign invasion.
- Shih Huangdi
- First emperor of Qin Dynasty
- Ming Dynasty
- Embryo of modern China, invention of cloisonne and the blue and white porcelain. Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven
- Mao Zendong
- leader of Chinese communism (20's-30's)
- Sui Dynasty
- Grand Canal connected Beijing 1,000 miles down to the South.
- Han Time
- 206-220 CE
- kangxi
- Qing emperor; He oversaw the greatest expansion of the Qing Empire.
- acupuncture
- form of pain relief by sticking needles in body
- Boxer Rebellion
- A 1900 Uprising in China aimed at ending foreign influence in the country.
- Song Time
- 960-1270
- Deng Xiaoping
- Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong.
- Yangtze
- Trade river
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Anit-Communist Group of China
- Anyang
- The ancient Chinese capital of the Shang Dynasty
- jesuits
- Also known as the Society of Jesus; founded by Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) as a teaching and missionary order to resist the spread of Protestantism.
- Cixi
- Empress (Upheld Confucian tradition), institutes open door policy-where anybody is free to come in or out of China, She fled to Xian when the foreign powers took over in Beijing.
- Tiananmen Square
- Chinese citizens want political reform and stood their ground at...
- Taiping Rebellion
- The most destructive civil war before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire.
- filial piety
- respect Children owe their parents
- Opium War
- War between Britain and the Qing Empire that was, in the British view, occasioned by the Qing government's refusal to permit the importation of opium into its territories. The victorious British imposed the one-sided Treaty of Nanking on China. (p. 684)