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2,000 Years of Chinese History!
The Mandate of Heaven and Confucius: World History #7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylWORyToTo4
1. What is 150 BCE to 1911 CE technically known as?
2. What is a dynasty?
3. Who is China’s most famous empress?
4. How did dynasties end?
5. What was the Mandate of Heaven?
6. From which dynasty does China get its name?
7. Why did Confucius have the last laugh?
8. What are some of the basic ideas of Confucius?
9. What is filial piety?
10. What’s in the secret compartment?
11. Why does the story of Yu the engineer of the Xia Dynasty break John Green’s heart?
12. According to John Green’s interpretation of Confucianism and the Mandate of Heaven, what
should you never do to your enemies?
2,000 Years of Chinese History!
The Mandate of Heaven and Confucius: World History #7
KEY
1. What is 150 BCE to 1911 CE technically known as?
- a long ass time
2. What is a dynasty?
- continuous ruling family
3. Who is China’s most famous empress?
- Empress Wu
4. How did dynasties end?
- emperor overthrown in a revolution or war
5. What was the Mandate of Heaven?
- dynasties were given their power by heaven
6. From which dynasty does China get its name?
- Qin (Chin)
7. Why did Confucius have the last laugh?
-he never was hired by a king, but his ideas became the basis of Chinese government and
education
8. What are some of the basic ideas of Confucius?
-upright and moral behavior
-people know their place in society
-five key relationships
-superior man
9. What is filial piety?
-fathers treat sons well, sons are respectful of father
10. What’s in the secret compartment?
-iPhone
11. Why does the story of Yu the engineer of the Xia Dynasty break John Green’s heart?
-he was fictional
12. According to John Green’s interpretation of Confucianism and the Mandate of Heaven, what
should you never do to your enemies?
-eat your enemies while engaging in orgies