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| line of rulers from the same family |
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| a noble whose wealth came from land ownership |
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| a charcter that stands for an object |
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| a charcter that joins two or more pictographs to represent an idea |
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| a group of appointed officals who are resonsible for diffrent areas of goverment |
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| the proper way chinese kings were expected to rule under the mandate of heaven |
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| What river flows from Mongolia to the Pacific Ocean? |
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| what was the site of the first chinese civilizations? |
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| What is the name of the cold rocky desert east of the Kunlan Shan and Tian Shan Mountians? |
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| what dynasty ruled over the huang he valley? |
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| how did chinas geography affect its development? |
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| Chinese cultre developed indepentily of most other cultures |
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| what does the chinese practice of filial piety state? |
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| taught people that women had little status in society |
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| what was the period of violence that made people look for ways to restore order called |
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| what was new about the goverment under the zhoe dynasty? |
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| kings were chosen by heavenly laws |
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| wa wung led a rebellion against what group becuase they were so cruel |
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| what chinese invention allowed soldiers to fight on horse back |
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| what taught people that they should put family and community needs above their own |
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| what respect for their parents and pther realitives |
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| who thought humans were naturally evil |
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| what promoted a peaceful society |
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| who was the founder of daoism whose name means the old master |
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| What taught that if each person does his or her duty society will do well? |
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| what were the first examples of chinese writing written up |
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| what did the people of the shang china belive influenced their lives |
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| gods spirits and ancestors |
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| what philosphy taught that people should give up wordly desires |
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| what did legalism teach people that was diffrent than confucianism |
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| had to be forced to do their duty |
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| what philosophy taught that people need harsh laws and punishment to make them live rightly |
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| who made sure that goverment officals did their jobs |
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| why did confuclanism and daoism devolpe |
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| a long period of unrest and violence mad them fearful |
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| how kings in ancient receive messages to guide their actions |
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| what did the invention of the iron plow lead to |
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| increased trade, population, and land formed |
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| what did they call the vast network of trade routes that extanded from china to southwest asia |
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| what did the qin build and extand to keep out the xionghu |
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| what dynasty had a warring state whose ruler used a large cavalry force to conquer other states and set up a new dynasty |
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| who stopped the many harsh qin practices |
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| who wanted the best minds to work in goverment |
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| the canal from the chang jaing to guangzhou used to supply troops was an achievement from what dynasty |
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| what religion helped people deal with stress and fear of an unstable goverment |
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| what items were sent out of china on the silk road |
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| salt silk tea spicies milk and rice |
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| when zhang quian went to explore west of china what kind of stories did he bring back |
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| why did the earliest chiniese people live in the huang he valley |
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| frequant flooding and left rich soil |
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| how was the han dynasty diffrent from the qin dynasty |
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| their offical policies were not as cruel |
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| Why did Chinese farmers need to produce many crops on small amounts of land? |
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| The deserts and mountains could not be farmed on |
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| The plateau of tibet is in what mountain range |
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| What is the name of the island outside China's eastern border |
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| What inventions helped Chinese society during the Han dynasty |
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| plow, acupuncture, steel, paper, rubber and drill bits |
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