Ancient China
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- Shi Huangdi
- First Emporer 221 BC formerly known as Zheng very brutal man ushered in China's Classical Age
- Silk Road
- Network of trade routes that linked China with the West. stretched 4000 miles to fertile crescent brought many new item like figs, and walnuts to China
- Great Wall of China
- Shi Huangdi had built;25 feet high topped with wide brick road built to protect people from outsiders
- Late chinese inventions
- made great advances in many fields of study-medicine, sciences, paper making, expanding the arts, and a handbook for how women should behave
- Ancient Chinese Achievements
- Movement of planed and recorded eclipses of the sun, led to developing and accurate calendar, improved art and technology of bronze making, and secret of silk-screening
- Natural Barriers that isolated China
- West&South-Brutal deserts and High Mountain ranges Southeast-thick rainforests/Gobi Desert East-Pacific Ocean
- 5 relationships
- Yin and Yang theory, 5 relationships ruler to subject,parent to child, husband to wife, elder brother to younger brother, friend to friend, respect parents above all else
- Where does power of rulers come from
- Zhou promoted the MANDATE of HEAVEN or the divine right to rule
- Daoism
- Harmony with nature; "way" of the universe; water does not bend, but it flows as an unstoppable force
- Confucianism
- developed a philosophy or system fo ideas that was concerned with worldly goals, especially those of ensuring social order and good government
- monopoly
- complete control of a product or business by one person or group
- dynastic cycle
- rise and fall of chinese dynasties according to the mandate of heaven
- service exams
- exams set up so that in theory a man could attain a government job that would bring them great wealth and move up in society. Only wealthy people were able to afford to study for these tests-no women allowed
- oracle bones
- an animal bone or turtle shell used by priests to tell the future
- feudalism
- loosly organized system of government in which local lords governed their own lands but owed military service and other support to a lord
- Yin and Yang
- Yin was linked to Earth, darkness, and female forces Yang stood for heaven, light, and male forces (Confucious)
- Loess
- fine windblowing silt
- calligraphy
- the art of producing beautiful hand writings
- clan
- group of families with common ancestors
- Legalism
- based on teachings of Hanfeizi-Only way to achieve order was to pass strict laws and impose harsh punishments for crimes
- Ancient Chinese writing
- system consisting of tens of thousands of characters that were symbols. Very difficult to learn Chinese scholars turned writing into calligraphy
- ideograph
- a picture or symbol that represents a word or a thought