Hurlburt Chapter 7
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 filial piety | practice that requires children to respect their parents and older relatives |
| Confucianism | taught that if each person does his or her duty, society as a whole will do well. |
| Oracle Bones | first examples of written Chinese language |
| Shang Dynasty | ruled over the Huang He valley |
| Huang He valley | site of the first Chinese civilizations |
| Hanfeizi | he thought that humans were naturally evil |
| Legalism | taught that people needed harsh laws and punishment to make them live rightly |
| Gobi | a cold, rocky desert east of the Kunlun Shan and Tian Shan Mountains |
| Silk Road | a network of trade routes that extended from China to southwest Asia |
| Great Wall | Quin built and extended it to keep out the Xiongnu |
| Laozi | founder of Daoism |
| Legalism | taught that people need a strong ruler to maintain order |
| warloards | military leaders with their own armies |
| Mandate of Heaven | the Zhou dynasty claimed this principle gave them the right to vote |
| Chinese invention | acupuncture |
| head of Chinese family | oldest man |
| 1/10 of China's land | good for farming |
| the Period of Warring States | this was the period of violence that made people look for ways to restore order |
| silk, tea and spices | were sent out of China by the Silk Road |
| overthrow him | If the king brought bad fortune on the people |
| Anyang | the first captital city made by the Shang |
| acupuncture | an example of Chinese medicine |
| tenant farmers | could pay their rent by giving the landlord a portion of their crops |
| offerings of food | ancient Chinese believed their gods needed this to keep them happy |
| chinese inventions | saddle and stirrups |
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