CHAPTER 8 VOCAB REVIEW

GROUP MEMBERS (each one types their name in a different color & uses that color for all answers they add to the review chart)
Emma Sloan Danica Reed Natalia Marco

INSTRUCTIONS: Use ALL of the 36 margin terms from Chapter 8 as evidence of the 3 claims; also include important terms NOT
in the margins (at least 4 of these). So, your completed chart should include at least 40 terms. Use your Ch 8 notes to guide you.

● For each term, include a very short definition that clearly shows the connection to the claim.
● If a term doesn’t quite fit the claim, then your definition might need to be a bit longer.
● You can use terms in more than one column if you wish.

CLAIM #1: Classical China CLAIM #2: Classical China CLAIM #3: Classical China
dealt with many internal & few created a highly centralized & created new ideas &
external problems organized society innovations
EVIDENCE: EVIDENCE: EVIDENCE:
*XIONGNU: external threat from North *STANDARDIZED SCRIPT: organized Confucius: Confucius brought many new
(raiders) and centralized writing - most important of and “improved” ideas to ancient China
The burning of books: Qin decided to Qin standards and allowed many people to solve
burn all the books on history, philosophy, the kingdom of qin:They had an problems due to his beliefs
ethics and literature to reassert his organized army,they had slaves go to
authority. places that had a small and uneven Confucian Ideas: His ideas were a new
population. way of thinking in the world of Ancient
Land Distribution: a problem, because China in his ways of ethical thinking
of poor harvests. The first emperor:His people followed
him till the day he died, they followed his Confucian values: He emphasized
The Region of Wang Mang: A ruler and rules and believed in his leadership. personal qualities such as ren, li and xiao
when came, tensions came.
Han centralization: He wanted to Laozi and the Daodejing: Laozi wrote
Collapse of the Han Dynasty: wars led increase his authority, he built large and the Daodejing with help of others and
to the collapse. important buildings/roads allowed the belief of daoism to start.

Zhuangzi: Argued with Conficians and Patriarchal social order: Patriarchal Daodejing: Contributed written works that
Legalists and caused many problems families were the foundations of a stable explained the way of the dao and of
society. virtue.
The Doctrine of Wuwei: Wuwei was
meant as the disengagement from Population Growth: At the beginning of The Dao: Thought of as a new way with
political affairs which caused problems the Qin Dynasty the population was 20 nature and an optimistic point of view on
between Daoism and other schools. million, at the end of Han dynasty, mankind.
population was 60 million.
Political Implications of Daoism: Shang Yang: participated actively in
People were able to live as Confucians by Social Tensions: different between rich political affairs and wrote a book while
day and Daoists by night but neither and poor participating in actively spreading the
agreed with legalist ways and caused school who ended the period of Warring
problems The yellow Turban Uprising: helped with states.
land distribution.
Han Feizi: He was killed by other Iron Metallurgy: Iron was used for pots,
ambitious men who forced him to drink Mencius: traveled throughout China, knives, hammers, and many more.
poison consulting with rulers and advocated
governments by benevolence and Silk Textiles: Manufacturing of silk
The Xiongnu: They mounted sudden humanity but accomplished little in his became an extremely important job.
raids in other places when people couldn't time.
satisfy their needs. Paper: Han craftsmen also invented
Xunzi: was a government administrator paper to make it easier to write on.
and had immense power
Tomb of the first emperor: He had lots
Legalist Doctrine: Legalism focused on of people build this and had lots of gifts
agriculture and armed forces which left inside, like a whole army sculpture.
allowed the state of China to finally unite
and become an Empire Standardized script: They used scripts
to write down information, and the scripts
Qin centralization: The first emperor Qin slowly got better over time.
Shihuangdi was an encouraging and
helpful leader, he had lots built. Liu Bang: He restored order through
China, and was head of the new dynasty.
Early Han policies: they took a path
between the Zhou and Qin dynasty and Classic of Filial Piety: a book to teach
took both positives for their own dynasty. children to obey parents and honor their
elders
The Martial Emperor, Han Wudi: He
was the best and most energetic emperor, The confucian education system: he
he wanted administrative centralization helped confucianism scholars with
and imperial expansion. education sense other places cared little
for education.
Han expansion into central asia: They
expanded into asia causing Xiongnu to Han imperial expansion:they expanded
fall under their armies. quickly and had vietnam and korea almost
right away.

Admonitions of Women: a book to teach

women how to treat their husbands
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