History China & Japan
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- Great Wall
- built to keep out mongols and other barbarian tribes
- Sui Dynasty
- Made the Grand Canal
- Zen Buddhism
- a practice of Buddhism though experience rather than texts
- Bushido
- Way of the warrior
- Filial Piety
- Respect for family and elders
- Mandate of Heaven
- Belief that gods chose the rulers
- Shogun
- military leader, led the samurai
- Legalism
- A very strict orderly society
- Yangtze River
- largest River in China
- Daimyo
- Lords
- Examination System
- a system of gaining power based on credits and education rather than by blood; placed huge emphasis on education system
- Amaterasu
- Sun god
- Buddhism (in China)
- was eventually destroyed because of threat to Confucianism
- Shinto
- worship of nature and animals; polytheistic spirits
- yin and yang
- the balance in the dark and the light, everything balances one another
- Confucius
- born poor and relied on education; loved order; 5 social relations; RUler>subject, Father>son, Older bro> younger bro, Husband>Wife
- Samurai
- Warriors and land owners loyal to Daimyos
- Marco Polo
- explorer that brought much knowledge to europe and expanded trade
- Han Dynasty
- Lasted about 400 years; began trade and started connecting china with other parts of the world; examination system
- Empreror
- Supreme rulers of Japan believe they are decendants of the sun god
- Analects
- Confucius' works and writings
- Kublai Khan
- Mongol Ruler in China grandson of Gangus Kahn
- Shang Dynasty
- first major Chinese dynasty; began along the Yellow River; evidence of the dynasty was found in the 1920's and 30's; Anyang was capital
- Seppuku
- Ceremonial Suicide
- Daoism
- Believed in the respect and union of one with Nature
- Assimilate
- to evolve and blend in with
- Qin Dynasty
- Shortest dynasty; strong legalism government; combined the great walls because they were first to centralize all of China
- Tang Dynasty
- the time when Buddhism came to China, but would eventually destroy it, because of threat to confucianism; Refered to as the Golden Age of China (trade expansion)
- Zhou Dynasty
- Implemented writing system and tools; longest lasting; first to use iron; mandate of Heaven
- Mongol Occupation of China
- Mongols did not treat the Chinese Fairly; Mongols ran government; introduced different religions; maintained separate lifestyles; abolished examination system
- Confucianism
- the system of ethics, education, and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples, stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct.
- Yamato
- dominant ethnic group of Japan
- Huang He River (Yellow River)
- 2nd largest river in China origin of Chinese Civilization
- Imperial Tomb of Shi Huangdi
- First Emperor of Qin; a tomb discovered in the 1970's; has over 8,000 terra cotta soldiers, meaning made of earth.