China Flashcards

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Filial Piety

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Respect shown by children for their parents and elders

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Confucius

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China’s most influential leader

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Bureaucracy

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A system of departments and agencies formed to carry out the work of government.

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Han Dynasty

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A Chinese dynasty that ruled from 202 BC to AD 9, and again from AD 23 to 220.

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Legalism

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A Chinese political philosophy based on the idea that a highly efficient and powerful government is the key to social order.

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Daoism

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A philosophy based on the idea that only natural order is important.
The relation among all living things.

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Laozi

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Taught that people should be guided by a universal force called the Dao. Lived in his mothers womb for 60 yrs.

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Autocracy

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A government in which the ruler has unlimited power and issues it in an arbitrary manner.

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Mandate of Heaven

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The divine approval thought to be the basis of royal authority.

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Yin and Yang

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The two powers that govern the natural rhythms of life.

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Civil Service Examinations

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The administrative departments of a government – especially those in which employees are hired on the basis of their scores on examinations.

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Sun Tzu

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A Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher. Wrote the Art of War.

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The Art of War

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An ancient Chinese treatise attributed to Sun Tzu.

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Toa Te Ching

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Written by Laozi, a book about his beliefs that natural order involves relations among all living things.

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Analects of Confucius

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Confucius’s students collected his words and let them into a book.

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