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| Huang He | Major river in China. Source is the Plateau of Tibet. Called Yellow River and China's Sorrow. Flows through North China Plain.
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| Chang Jiang | Major river in China. Source is the Plateau of Tibet. Called the Yangtze River. Flows through Chang Jiang Basin.
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| Dynasty | Line of rulers that are related to each other. Blood line.
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| Anyang | Shang capital city. walled
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| Aristocrats | Nobles whose wealth come from the land owned
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| pictograph | Characters that stand for objects. ei. pictures of moon or sun
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| Ideograph | Characters that join two or more pictographs to represent an idea.
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| Wu Wang | Aristocrat that rebelled against the Shang. Founded the Zhou Dynasty
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| bureaucracy | Appointed officials who are responsible for different areas of government.
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| Mandate of Heaven | Order; King chosen by heavenly order for wisdom and talent. If bad, people have right to overthrow the government.
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| Dao | "the way" Doing the right thing
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| Filial Piety | Children had to respect their parents and older relatives.
Families placed the need of the family before their own.
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| Head of the family | Oldest male
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| Confucianism | Philosophy: all men with talent should take part in the government. Respect is given; Relationships
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| Daoism | Philosophy: be one with nature. Follow the Dao
and give up worldly desires
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| Legalism | Philosophy: society needs strict laws and harsh punishments to keep order. People are evil and selfish.
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| Kong Fuzi; Confucius | Creator of Confucianism. Respect and relationships/
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| Laozi: Old Master | Creator of Daoism; wise man or sage
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| Han Feizi | Creator of Legalism; believed people were evil and selfish
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| Qin Shihuangdi | Emperor of Qin Dynasty
unified China, standardized weights, money, roads.
followed legalism
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| Liu Bang | Founded the Han Dynasty
Han Gaozu: Exalted Emperor of Han
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| Han Wudi | Martial Emperor of Han
Han Dynasty reached it's peak under this leadership
Followed Confucianism.
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| Silk Road | Large network of trade routes stretching 4,000 miles from China to southwest Asia. Merchants paid taxes at many kingdoms along the way... pit stops.
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| Terrace Farming | Cutting steps into hillsides or mountains to increase usable farmland
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| Zhou Dynasty | Longest lasting dynasty, 800 years. Ended with Period of Warring States.
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| Shang Dynasty | First dynasty of China. Capital of Anyang walled city.
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| North China Plain | Best farmland in China. Silt from Huang He River.
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| Chang Jiang Basin | Located in southeast China. Lots of precipitation. Climate good for growing rice.
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| Gobi Desert | Northern desert. Rocky desert. Isolated China
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| Taklamakan Desert | Northwestern desert. "Many go in, few come out"
Turfan Depression located in desert. Isolated China.
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| Northeastern Plain | Hills and prairie grass vegetation. Pastoral Nomads herd animals.
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| Northwestern Deserts | Consist of Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts. Too dry, to hot, or to cold to farm. Isolated China.
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| Plateau of Tibet | 8,000 to 15,000 feet plateau. Area too high, cold, dry for farming. Pastoral Nomads herd animals. Isolated China.
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| Roof of the World | Name given to Plateau of Tibet because of height
15,000 feet
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| Bronze Vessel | Bronze metal molds
accomplishment of Shang Dynasty
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| Fu Hao | Wife of Wu Ding
was a female general in the army, in Shang Dynasty
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| Oracle Bones | First form of Chinese writing
questions written on shoulder bones or turtle shells
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| Period of Warring States | 200 years of fighting after the fall of Zhou Dynasty. Qin State rises from the turmoil.
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| Social Class | King or emperor, land owner aristocrats, FARMERS, then merchants
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| Tea, silk, spices, porcelain | Items traded along the Silk Road
moved out of China
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| Buddhism | Religion that spread to China via the Silk Road
Accepted by Chinese to help with stress of civil war.
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| paper, waterwheel, acupuncture, seismograph, iron drill bits, rudders for ships, compass, wheel barrow. | Inventions of China.
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