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Classical Age: China
Shang Dynasty, Zhou Dynasty, Qin Dynasty, Han Dynasty
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History
9th Grade
05/22/2011

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Bactria
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Aghanistan (valuable horses)
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Zhou Dynasty
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Chinese dynasty where Confucious, Dao, and Legalism came,
"the time of the warring states"
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Shang Dynasty
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Chinese dynasty with oracle bones, bronze making, barter economy
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Mandate of Heaven
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Chinese philosphy that the king had "divine apporval" to rule
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Xia Dynasty
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First dynasty of China (some believe to be a myth)
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"River of Sorrow"
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Huang He River
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Ban Po
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Neolithic village in China
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Xizang
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Tibet
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Three Gorges Dam
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Yangtze River
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oracle bones
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animal bones and tortoise shells where priests scratched question on, put a hot poker on it, and interpreted the cracks
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Analects
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book about Confucianism
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Chang'an
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capital of Han Dynasty
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Xianyang
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capital of Qin
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Anyang
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capital of Shang Dynasty
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pinyin
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current Chinese writing (ex: Beijing)
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dynastic cycle
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cycle in which each dynasty rises and falls
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Qin Dynasty
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dynasty that unified all of China after Warring States period
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Son of Heaven
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emperor of China
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Confucius (Kongfuzi)
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founder of Confucianism; didn't start teaching until age of 50
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Han Dynasty
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golden age of China
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sinicization
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making people Chinese
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gentry
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new class in Han Dynasty of scholars and state officials
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Xiongnu
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nomads north of the Great Wall of China
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Xinjiang
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oil-producing region in China
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Confucianism
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philosophy where social order and harmony with everybody will bring end of choas from the Warring States Period of the Zhou Dynasty
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Silk Road
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series of trade routes that linked Asia to Europe
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feudalism
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system where emperor gives control of different regions to nobles and the nobles owe loyalty and military power to the king
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five relationship
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the five main relationship of Confucianism:
ruler and subject
father and son
husband and wife
older brother and younger brother
friend and friend
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Parthians
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traders on the Silk Road
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warlords
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warrior nobles
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veneration of ancestors
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worship of one's ancestors
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loess
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yellowish slit from the Gobi
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