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Stearns Chapter 2: Classical China (Due Oct 22nd)
Section I - Outline: Answer the following sequential questions in COMPLETE SENTENCES.
Patterns in Classical China
1. Describe the Zhou dynasty:
a. Government
b. Culture
c. Language
2. Explain how China avoided the process of political decay that India experienced.
3. Describe the Qin dynasty:
a. Government
b. Culture
c. Great Wall
4. Describe the Han dynasty:
a. Government
b. Culture
Political Institutions
5. What was the typical bureaucrat like in classical China?
6. The Chinese were the most tightly governed people in any large society in the world,
what were the benefits of this?
7. What does the proverb, “heaven is high, and the emperor is far away”, reveal about
Chinese government?
Religion and Culture
8. What religious rituals existed in early Chinese history?
9. How did Confucian philosophy support the political structure in China?
10. Compare and contrast Confucianism and Legalism.
11. Why was China able to accept two major belief systems, Confucianism and Daoism?
12. What artistic achievements did imperial China make?
13. What science and mathematics advancements did imperial China make?
Economy and Society
14. Who were the “mean” people and what disadvantages did they have in society?
15. Describe the influence of merchants and the importance of commerce to China.
16. What role did family organization play in Chinese society?
17. Discuss gender relations and the treatment of women in classical China.
How Chinese Civilization Fits Together
18. How did the Chinese view the outside world and interact other societies?
19. What were some of the benefits of the harmony China’s major features had?
20. How did the Chinese see the relationship between the private and public sectors of their
society?
21. Tensions certainly existed in imperial China; describe several of the major areas of
tension.
22. How did classical China embrace their diversity of features?
Global Connections: Classical China and the World
23. What achievements of the classical age demonstrate the highlights of imperial China?
24. What influence did China have on patterns of world trade?
Section II - Map Activity: Use the map to answer in COMPLETE SENTENCES.
Map 1.2 China from the Later Zhou Era to the Han Era (page 36)
1. How did physical geography contribute to Chinese isolation?
2. China calls itself Chung Kuo or the Middle Kingdom, the land at the center of the
civilized world. How would geography have contributed to this belief?
3. What policies and technologies would have been necessary to control and to unify the
geographically large Chinese state?
Section III – In Depth: Use the document to answer in COMPLETE SENTENCES.
Women in Patriarchal Societies (page 45)
1. How do you think most women reared in a patriarchal society would react to their
conditions?
2. What might cause differences in women’s conditions in patriarchal societies, or from one
society to another?
3. Why were upper-class women often considered more inferior to men than lower-class
women were?
Section VI - Vocabulary: Define the following key terms in COMPLETE SENTENCES.
1.
Confucius
2.
Confucian Five Relationships
3.
Filial Piety
4.
Ancestor Worship
5.
Dynasty
6.
Bureaucracy
7.
Scholar-gentry
8.
Legalism
9.
Daoism; Dao
10. Secret Societies
11. Autocracy
12. Yin-Yang
13. Shi Huangdi
14. Centralized Government
15. Civil Service
16. Monopoly