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WH CH3 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aristocracy | an upper class whose wealth is based on land and whose power is passed on from one generation to another |
| Mandate of Heaven | claim by chinese kings of zhou dynasty that they had direct authority from heaven to rule and to keep order in the universe |
| Dao | “way”, the key to proper behavior under confucianism |
| Filial piety | the duty of family members to subordinate their needs and desires to those of the male head of the family, a concept important in confucianism |
| Confucianism | the system of political and ethical ideas formulated by the Chinese philosopher Confucius toward the end of the zhou dynasty |
| Daoism | a system of ideas based on the teachings of laozi |
| legalism | a popular philosophy developed in china toward the end of the zhou dynasty, it proposes that human beings are evil by nature and can only be brought to the correct path by harsh laws |
| Regime | the government in power |
| Censorate | part of the Chinese bureaucracy that made sure government officials were doing their jobs |
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