China - History
Terms
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gentry
- group of rich, educated people
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movable type
- blocks of individual characters arranged to make a page for printing
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assimilation
- making conquered people part of the conqueror's civilization
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monopoly
- small group has control over all buying or selling
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civil service
- government jobs that civilians obtain by taking exams
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centralized government
- central authority runs the state
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Han Dynasty
- founded by Liu Bang and ruled for over 400 years
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autocracy
- a government that has unlimited power
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Shi Huangdi
- first emperor of the Qin Dynasty
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Qin Dynasty
- replaced the Zhou Dynasty in third century B.C.
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yin and yang
- two powers that represent the natural rhythms of life
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I Ching
- book of oracles
- belief that government should rule strictly by the law
- Legalism
- philosophy of Laozi
- Daoism
- people who run the government
- bureaucracy
- respect for parents and ancestors
- filial piety
- Chinese scholar who started Confucianism
- Confucius
- king grants land to nobles in exchange for loyalty and protection
- feudalism
- rise, decline, and replacement of dynasties
- dynastic cycle
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belief that ruler's authority came from heaven
- Mandate of Heaven
- bones and shells on which priests scratched questions for the gods
- oracle bones
- fertile soil blown by the winds from deserts
- loess