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Seminar World History Homework
April 21, 2008
**Due Monday, April 28 (P5) or Tuesday, April 29 (P2, P4)**
Read Chapter 3, China in Antiquity, pp 64-91.
Focus Questions:
1. How did geography influence the civilization that arose in China?
2. What concepts of kingship and political and governmental institutions
characterized each of the major dynasties of early China – the Shang, the Zhou,
the Qin, and the Han?
3. What were the major tenets of Confucianism, Legalism, and Daoism, and what
role did each play in Chinese civilization?
4. What were the key aspects of social and economic life in early China?
5. What role did nomadic peoples play in early Chinese history?
ID Terms:
Fu Xi
Shen Nong
Yellow Emperor
Yang Shao and Lung Shan cultures
Xia Dynasty
Shang Dynasty
Anyang
Xinjiang
Veneration of ancestors
Oracle bones
Well field system
Zhou dynasty
The Dao
Mandate of Heaven
Rites of Zhou
Yang and yin
Confucius
The Analects
Mencius
Legalism
Way of the Great Learning
Lao Tzu
Daoism
Dao de Jing
Period of Warring States
Qin Dynasty
Qin Shi Huangdi
Li Su
Sim Qian
Xiongnu
Great Wall
Han Dynasty
Liu Pang
Wang Mang
Changan
Filial piety
Fu Xuan
Wok
Ban Zhao and Ban Gu
Terra-cotta army
Sima Qian
calligraphy