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Ancient China Study Guide Student Name _________________________________________________ Date __________________________________ Directions: Complete the work listed below. Beginnings of Civilization in China: Chapter 2 Section 4 page 50 - 55 Terms and Names: For each term or name, write a sentence explaining its importance to China. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Loess Oracle bone Mandate of Heaven Dynastic Cycle Feudalism Question: How might Yu’s flood-control and irrigation projects help settlements grow? Beginnings of Civilization In China : chapter 4 Section 4 page 104 – 109 Terms and Names: For each term or name, write a sentence explaining its importance to China. 1. Confucius 2. Filial piety 3. Bureaucracy 4. Daoism 5. Legalism 6. I Ching 7. Yin and yang 8. Qin Dynasty 9. Shi Huangdi 10. Autocracy Question: Was Shi Huangdi justified in requiring peasants to work on the Great Wall? Why or why not? Explain. Chinese Ethical Systems Confucianism Social order, harmony, and good government should be based on family relationships. Respect for parents and elders is important to a well-ordered society. Education is important both to the welfare of the individual and society. Daoism The natural order is more important than the social order. A universal force guides all things. Human beings should live simply and in harmony with nature. Legalism A highly efficient and powerful government is the key to social order. Punishments are useful to maintain social order. Thinkers and their ideas should be strictly controlled by the government. 1. Which of these three systems stress the importance of government and a well-ordered society? Provide evidence from the table to justify your conclusion. 2. Which of these systems seems to be most moderate and balanced? Explain. Use specific evidence from the table and the text to explain your conclusion. New Directions in Government and Society: Chapter 7 Section 4 page 200 – 207 Terms and Names: For each term or name, write a sentence explaining its importance to China. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Han Dynasty Centralized government Civil service Monopoly Assimilation Question: How significant were the Silk Roads to the economy of China? Defend your viewpoint with text references. Question: What was the importance of the Chinese invention of paper? Provide evidence to support your conclusion. Question: Contrast Buddhism’s influence on India’s government with Confucianism’s influence on China’s government. Big Ideas and Patterns Beliefs about Society Structure or Order in China from Early River Civilizations through the Han Dynasty Early River Civilizations (Chapter 2 Section 4) Unification of China (Chapter 4 section 4) Han Empire (chapter 7 Section 3) Question: Apply the dynastic cycle to the dynasties you have studied in order to explain how they rose and fell over time.