China term list UNIT 3
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- Ancestor Worship
- A form of worshiping one's dead relatives because of the thought that one's ancestors could control the living
- Civil Service System
- The way to hire people in the Chinese government through a competitive examination
- Zhou Dynasty
- a clan who overthrew the Shang Dynasty by obtaining the mandate
- Tang Dynasty
- The first dynasty to have the first Cosmopolitan culture/society with great economic growth and a political system(much like our own),
- Great wall of china, what dynasty?
- Qin
- Daosim leader and author of Dao te Ching
- Laozi
- Major trading good
- silk
- Bureaucracy
- A set of rules and regulations put in place to control activity in government or large organizations
- Filial Piety
- is one of the virtues to be cultivated: a love and respect for one's parents and ancestors.
- Shi Huangdi
- unified China and was the founder of the Qin dynasty, was a violent guy
- Some of the oldest examples of Chinese writing were left by Shang priests on
- oracle bones
- Yin and Yang
- balance between opposites
- grand canal
- wold's oldest and longest canal built during the Wu dynasty.
- Zheng He
- Hui Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral, who made voyages
- The Way of Virtue
- the teachings of self-concealment and namelessness.
- Foot Binding during Song Dynasty by ideals of
- Confucianism
- Analects
- a collection of Confucius writings
- Sui Dynasty
- Abolished noble families privileges that grew through Age of Division Created an Imperial Examination System to select officialss
- Daoism
- philosophy created by Lao Tzu which stresses unity of humanity and the universe.
- tributary states
- one of the two main ways in which a pre-modern state might be subordinate to a more powerful neighbor.
- Confucius believed that
- younger people should respect their elders
- Five Relationships
- ruler to subject, parent to child, husband to wife, elder brother to younger brother, friend to friend
- Shang Dynasty
- (1523-1027 BC) first dynasty of china,oracle bones
- Qin Dynasty
- (221-206 BC)the first dynasty to unify all of China under one ruler, Emperor Qin Shi Huang
- Confucianism
- the proper relationships in society (father/son)
- Silk Road
- Trade route from China to the Middle East. Called the Silk Road due to China's most important export
- Kublai Khan
- Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan
- Mandate of Heaven
- a belief system that states that heaven will choose fairly the new leader/dynasty of china
- Qing Dynasty
- (1644)the laast of the Chinese dynasties
- Empire
- the domain ruled by an emperor or empress
- Qianlong's Letter to George III
- told King George that resisted external trade and their demands
- Dynastic Cycle
- when a new dynasty takes over and claims the mandate of heaven
- Han Dynasty
- poetry and literature flourished, (golden age)established Confucianism
- Genghis Khan
- Mongolian empire who ruled over most of China
- Dynasty
- a generation or sequence of leaders and rulers
- Legalism
- philosophy based on law, that is the belief that the law should be applied to all subjects
- Meritocracy
- A system where individuals are chosen or promoted based on past achievements
- Manchus
- a tribe of the Jurchen group, originally from the northeast part of present-day China
- Pax Mongolia
- An era of peace throughout much of Eurasia after the Mongol conquest of the 13th century
- Great Wall of China
- (a powerful structure) built in the Qin Dynasty to protect the northern border of China from attacks
- Mongols did what?
- stabilized China, expanded the territory, and increased trade
- In Ming China, why did European traders pay for Chinese silks and porcelains in gold or silver instead of exchanging trade goods?
- the did not want inferior goods
- Macao
- One of two ports in which Europeans were permitted to trade in China during the Ming dynasty
- Warlords
- military leaders with civil power in a region
- Marco Polo
- Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan
- Feudalism
- a political and economic system under which land was granted by a landowner to a person in exchange for military service or other duties
- Confuscianists ideas recorded in the
- Analects
- Song Dynasty
- built an effective centralized bureaucracy staffed with civilian scholar-officials
- The Philosophy of Daoism is concerned with
- harmony with nature
- Mongols
- nomadic peoples
- Ming Dynasty
- Mongol Yuan dynasty in China
- achievement during Han golden age?
- art of papermaking