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Exam 2 Chapter 5
china notes
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Undergraduate 2
10/12/2011

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What are the three key concepts of Confucianism
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Ren, Li, Xiao
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Ren
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Compassion
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Li
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Propriety
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Xiao
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filial piety
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Two key concepts of Daoism
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Dao and Wuwei
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Dao
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the way, the origional force of the cosmos
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Wuwei
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disengagement from worldly pursuits
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main idea of Daoism
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live in harmony with the Dao
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Wang Mang
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"The Socialist Emperor" Was full grown and attempted large scale reform based on Confucianism
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Sui Dynasty
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United China after 400 years of division, encouraged Buddhism, built great canal from north china to south china
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The Analects
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the book of the sayings of Confucius, collected by his disciples and published a century or two after his death
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filial piety
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the Confucian rule that children should respect and obey their parents
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Daoism
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a Chinese philosophy that emphasized adaptation to nature, arose in the late Zhou era
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Legalism
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a chinese philosophy that advocated harsh control of people by the state, became the dominate philosophy of the Qin dynasty and was later tempered by confucianism
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Sinicization
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the process by which Central Asian invaders maintained continuity with China's past by adopting culture
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Mandarins
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educated men who staffed the imperial Chinese bureaucracy from the Han Dynasty until the early twentieth century
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scholar-gentry
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a Chinese social class of learned officeholders and landowners that arose in the Han dynasty and continued until the early twentieth century
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Silk Road
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a lively caravan route through Central Asia that linked China with India, the Middle East, and southern Europe that began during the Han dynasty and continued for many centuries
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sericulture
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silk making, which arose in ancient China
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Shinto
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"way of the gods" the ancient animistic Japanese cult that emphasized closeness to nature, enjoyed a rich mythology that included many dieties
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