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-Italian foreigner/ merchant
-was let into government
-described China to other European people |
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| money, goods, or property provided to a girl's husband when married |
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-The Way
-the key proper behavior under Confucianism |
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| people part of the Chinese bureaucracy that made sure government officials were doing their jobs |
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-kind of like Divine Rights
-claimed by Chinese kings of Zhou dynasty that they had direct authority from heaven to rule and keep order in the universe |
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| -India is this because it's separated from the rest of Asia |
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| burning husband after death and if wife is still alive, then she is to follow him into death even if still living |
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-most successful emperor of the Mongols and kept them from attacking western Europe
-great general (?) and good with placing his army and troops
-used spies and used terror as policy
-let foreigners inside government (Marco Polo) |
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-ruled with small group of noble families
-an upper class whose wealth is based on land and whose power is passed on from one generation to another |
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| first and only empress of China |
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-based on the teachings of Laozi
-centers around human behavior
-way to heaven is through inaction
-best harmony is to not interfere with the natural order |
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-known as first teacher
-son of peasant woman and noble father
-prophet
-religion--- filial piety |
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-humans are evil by nature
-impersonal and harsh laws w/ severe punishments
-rulers did not need to show compassion |
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-became emperor when all siblings were assassinated
-was a harsh ruler and no mercy upon anyone though had a change in heart after witnessing massacre of lots
-made people not kill animals only for food and most became veterinarians
-universities for farming, agriculture and education
-no more war only allies
-converted to Buddhism |
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-would invade people by how weak their defenses were
-first to rule over unified India
-son Bindusara |
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-arrive in India in 2000 BC
-warrior culture
-nomadic
-expanded power to Ganges River valley and south to the Deccan Plateau
-assimilated- mixed with the people of other cultures---> Dravidian's
-lacked written language---> eventually created Sanskrit |
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-first emperor to rule China and unified it
-Great Wall of China (Long Grave Yard) and his tomb with Terracotta Warriors in it |
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(1.) Brahmins-upper class nobles, priests; mouth
(2.) Kshatriyas-warriors; arms
(3.) Vaisyas-merchants etc.; legs
(4.) Sudras –servants, peasants; feet
*(5.) Untouchables-non believers (not Hindu) |
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-6000 miles long
-kept invaders out and Chinese people in
-Shihuangdi had it built during his time
-Long Grave Yard
-tons of people died making the wall
-mostly peasants
-was road to transport goods
-made during the Qin dynasty |
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| The Period of Warring States (475-221 BC) |
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-civil war between families
-Sun Tzu and the Art of War- how a leader should command his troop
-emergence of Qin Dynasty
-things were primitive
-soldiers were farmers
-during Zhou dynasty |
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-created by the Aryans
-use of it were:
-Vedas--oral hymns |
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| -were scholar officials, new social class, served the government and had pony tails and long fingernails |
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| Advances of the Song/ Tang Dynasties |
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-block print
-magnetic compass
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-steel weapons and tools
-gunpowder=flamethrower/ fire-lance |
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| Zheng He and importance of his voyages |
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-built huge fleet, one of the largest in history
-went to India
-believed he touched the shore of what will become the USA in 1421 and Florence Italy in 1428 during the Renaissance
-died 1433 and fleet is destroyed by new emperor w/records of travels
-ends exploration
-China is isolated
-ruins colonizing any part of the wolrd before Europeans
-miss out on things in the years to come= Age of Exploration, Columbus, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution (because he died and all this happens in 1433) |
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| most powerful empire of the Southeast Asia area for hundreds of years |
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-the only region to be influenced by the Chinese
-first people in Southeast Asia to develop their own state and culture |
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| is a military general of a centralized government in Japan in the day |
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-were nomadic
-traded gold with the Arabs for salt to preserve meats
-still exists today
-carry the goods across the desert for the Ghana people and themselves |
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-Japanese warriors
-were not to unsheathe swords unless to draw blood |
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| is a leader of a noble family of a decentralized government |
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| code of laws that the samurai lived by |
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-first great trading state in West Africa
-lots of gold and wanted to control trade routes of gold, ivory and salt |
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-first and possibly the only African civilization to convert to Christianity
-though eventually converts to Islam |
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1.civil service examination
2.steel
3.paper
4.textile manufactures
5.increased boundaries of China
6. rudder and fore and aft |
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-nation wide school system
-Yong Le began constructing the Imperial City
-moved capital to Beijing
-Zheng He ans his fleet
-Great Canal
-Forbidden City
-brought back Confucius |
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1.Hokkaido
2. Honshu
3. Kyushu
4.Shikoku |
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| -Grand Canal in the making to ling the great rivers of China; the Huang He and Chang Jiang |
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-emperors pacified country
-banner men were the chief fighting force of the empire (foreigners in sense)
-overthrown by Nationalists
restored peace and prosperity |
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-capital- Meroe and large trading center
-first civilization after the Egyptians cause they conquered them
-wanted to control the trading of ivory, gold and salt |
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