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By Chinese legend, a man named __ was given the reward to be the ruler of the __ ______ for his labor of building canals and planting trees to contain the waters of the Great China Plain |
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In _____ B.C. the Shang dynasty was established |
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Dynastic rule in China remained until the year _____ |
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An important task of kings in China was to perform rituals and give sacrifices to the gods. ____ __ was the chief god. |
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Priests used to use _____ bones to consult their _____. |
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The Shang dynasty established print to China. There were over _____ characters in their system of writing. |
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In ____ B.C. the _____ people invaded and over through the Shang dynasty. The _____ dynasty ruled China almost ___ years afterward. |
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1027 B.C. Zhou people Zhou dynasty 800 years |
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Confucious established these five relationships that must govern human society as to restore order in China |
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-ruler and ruler -father and son -older brother and younger brother -husband and wife -friend and friend |
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Confucious stressed the idea of fital piety, which is the ________________. |
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the duty and respect children owe their parents |
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Philosepher Lao Zi founded _____, which emphasized the link between people and ____. |
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that only harsh laws imposed by a strong leader will impact society |
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At first the Chinese did not accept or understand this religious concept, but later it turned out to blend in with Chinese beliefs and values |
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By 1949, the ____ party gained control. They were led by ___ Zedong |
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_____is the main buffer between China and Russia |
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Before the _____, Hong Kong was largely uninhabited |
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a yellow-brown soil that winds carry across the North China Plain into the Yellow River |
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The largest ethnic group in China is the ____, with it containing 95% of China's population |
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the belief that one has the conditional right to rule |
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the constant cycle of the rise and fall of dynasties |
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Mandate of Heaven is different then the belief of Divine right because... |
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With the belief of Divine right, you have to obey the authority no matter what. With Mandate of Heaven, the person is allowed to be kicked out if they are not providing for the people and being a truly horrid leader |
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The Chinese used ______, or symbols to help express ideas. The Chinese system of writing made in the _____ dynasty used about ______ characters. |
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Shi Huangdi used _____ ideas to unite China in 221 B.C. |
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Between 1279-1368, _____ had full control of China |
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In the late 1700's, what two major developments changed China's relationship with the West? |
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1-The Industrial Revolution in Europe 2-The Qing dynasty entered a period of decline because of how the peasant population was increasing yet not producing enough food to survive, as well as high taxes and limited land. |
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A low bow foreigners did when they entered China as a sign to show the acceptance of their inferior status |
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The Industrial Revolution in Europe increased Europe's... |
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military strength and power |
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____ was grown in India and was sold to China by Europe. By the early _____, many of the Chinese were addicted to it. In ____, China destroyed a British shipment of it and it started a war that China would undoubtedly ____. |
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The treaty of _____ was the first of the "_____ treaties". It ended the Opium War |
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The treaty of Nanjing made China accept it's terms of peace, which were... |
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1- Make China pay for any destroyed opium 2- Give Britain control of Hong Kong 3- Open more ports open to British trade |
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Westerners also gained _______ from the treaty of Nanjing, where if a foreigner was accused of a crime, they would be tried in their own courts instead of Chinese courts. |
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The five countries that put China in a sphere of influence were... |
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Britain,France, Germany, Japan, and Russia |
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What is a sphere of influence? |
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An area in which a foreign nation has special economic privledges, such as the right to build railroads and factories. |
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China created the "Open Door" policy to prevent European nations to set up _____ in China. The "Open Door" policy gave all countries equal access to ______ with China. |
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The Taiping Revolution was the beginning of a long, slow ______ in China. The Taiping revolution lasted __ years and killed ___ million people. |
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The original name for the "Boxers" in the Boxer Rebellion was the |
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Fists of Righteous Harmony |
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In 1900, many of the Boxers killed many ____________ and ___________. |
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Chinese Christians and foreigners |
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In ___, China established a _____ instead of a dynastic ruling government. |
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In 1911, _______ took control of China |
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For a brief time in 1911, Dr. Sun Yutsen served as president of China. He set out his goals in a list known as the "Three Principles of the People". These principles were... |
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1-He called for nationalism 2-He supported democracy 3-He ensured a decent living for all Chinese people |
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The successful effort of Chiang Kai-shek (leader of the nationalists)to chase communists out of China. |
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Karl Marx was a ____ philosepher who predicted the proletariat class would _____ |
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the industrial working class |
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In a totalitarian state, - |
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the government controls all aspects of a person's life |
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The Little Red Book was... |
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A book of Mao Zedong's teachings that communists religiously read and spoke of |
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______ forced peasents to pool together their farm land, tools, and labor to form _______________. |
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Communists, collective farms |
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The Great Leap Forward was... |
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Mao's name/attempt to modernize China |
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The Great Leap Forward ended ______ for China |
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In 1958, The Great Leap Forward demanded an increase in... |
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agricultural and technological advances |
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The Communist government succeeded in improving _________ |
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the standard of living for many CHinese people |
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In ____, Mao launched the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" to renew ________. |
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1966, revolutionary spirit |
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Students and young factory workers created the _________ to support Mao Zedong. |
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After Mao's death, ____________ rose as China's leader |
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Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations were... |
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modernizing agriculture,expanding industry, developing science and technology, and upgrading China's military |
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Both the Opium War and the Boxer Rebellion tried to rid ________. |
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In 1900's China, Communist victory in the Chinese Mainland was the result of these three things... |
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1- Corruption of nationalist gov. 2-Seizure of Weapons 3-Civil War between nationalists and communists |
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SEZ, or _________, with _____________ ,____________, and _____ contributed to China's growth still seen today |
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special economic zones, free enterprise, foreign investments, trade |
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Capitalism is a type of economy where... |
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it is a free market economy in which the means of production are owned and operated by individuals for profit |
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Military control and law enforcement having to take control of a situation |
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The Tianiman Square protests were the protests of... demanding.... |
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Student protesters demanding democratic rights. |
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The Tiananmen Square protests happened in ___. |
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Emperer ____ turned down _______'s request for trading rights in the 1700's |
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Mao Zedong promised to restore China's position as a major ____________. |
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The _________ was a way to mobilize Chinese people to build projects needed in China |
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A dissident is someone who... |
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strongly and publicly opposes the government |
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