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Chapter 2 Vocabulary

Chapter 2 Vocabulary. Charbornay Johnson 8/29/12 2 nd Block. Vocabulary. Qin Dynasty Zhou Dynasty Great Wall Confucius “Mean People”. Qin Dynasty. Established in 221 BCE at the end of the Warring States period following the decline of the Zhou Dynasty. Thinking Map.

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Chapter 2 Vocabulary

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  1. Chapter 2 Vocabulary Charbornay Johnson 8/29/12 2nd Block

  2. Vocabulary • Qin Dynasty • Zhou Dynasty • Great Wall • Confucius • “Mean People”

  3. Qin Dynasty Established in 221 BCE at the end of the Warring States period following the decline of the Zhou Dynasty. Thinking Map

  4. Qin dynasty G!SPRITE • P - Brutal government let first by Qin Shih Huangdi, but was very effective; established the first b • R – Believed in Legalism, which favored an authoritarian state that ruled by brutal force. • T – Qin Shih Huangdi ordered the building of the Great Wall; regulated coinage, weights, and measurements throughout the realm.

  5. Zhou Dynasty Originally a vassal family of Shang China; possibly Turkic in origin; overthrew the Shang and established 2nd historical Chinese Dynasty that flourished 1122 to 256 BCE.

  6. Zhou Dynasty G!sprite • S – there were two main social classes: land-owning gentries, and those who provided services to these gentries. • P – ruled through alliances with regional princes and noble families. • E – Trade started becoming important during this dynasty, and during the Han dynasty.

  7. Great Wall of China Chinese defensive fortification intended to keep out the nomadic invaders from the North; initiated during the Qin Dynasty during the reign of Shih Huangdi.

  8. Great Wall g!sprite • G - along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China. • S – built to keep out nomadic invaders from the North. • P – Ordered to be built by Qin Shih Huangdi.

  9. Confucius Teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher who stressed personal and political organization and unity.

  10. Confucius G!SPRITE • G – traveled across China searching for a supreme ruler to become his chief advisor. • P – encouraged bureaucracies to be created in the Qin Dynasty because of his teachings of personal and political unity and organization.. • R – His teachings were compiled into The Analects.

  11. “Mean People” Back to Vocab Performed rough transport and other unskilled jobs and suffered from lowest possible status; punished for crimes more harshly than other groups; forced to wear green identifying scarves.

  12. “Mean People” G!SPRITE • S – Lowest social class in early China. • P – punished worse than other social classes for being “inferior”. • E – Included merchants (people who sold things) and performing artists.

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