CHAPTER 2 VOCABULARY
Charbornay Johnson
8/29/12
2nd Block
VOCABULARY
Qin Dynasty
Zhou Dynasty
Great Wall
Confucius
“Mean People”
QIN DYNASTY
Established in 221 BCE at the end of the Warring States period following
the decline of the Zhou Dynasty.
Thinking Map
Brutal
Qin
Dynasty
Standardized
weights,
coinage, and
measurements
throughout the
realm.
Established the
first
bureaucracies.
QIN DYNASTY G!SPRITE
P - Brutal government let first by Qin Shih Huangdi, but was very effective;
established the first b
R – Believed in Legalism, which favored an authoritarian state that ruled by
brutal force.
T – Qin Shih Huangdi ordered the building of the Great Wall; regulated
coinage, weights, and measurements throughout the realm.
ZHOU DYNASTY
Originally a vassal family of Shang China; possibly Turkic in origin; overthrew
the Shang and established 2 nd historical Chinese Dynasty that flourished 1122 to
256 BCE.
Fell because of
invasions by
nomadic people
and a decline in
political
infrastructure.
Zhou
Dynasty
Did not
establish a
central
government.
Extended China
to the “Middle
Kingdom”
ZHOU DYNASTY G!SPRITE
S – there were two main social classes: land-owning gentries, and those who
provided services to these gentries.
P – ruled through alliances with regional princes and noble families.
E – Trade started becoming important during this dynasty, and during the Han
dynasty.
GREAT WALL OF CHINA
Chinese defensive fortification intended to keep out the nomadic invaders from
the North; initiated during the Qin Dynasty during the reign of Shih Huangdi.
Over 3000
miles long.
Great
Wall of
China
Built to keep
out nomadic
invaders from
the North
Built during
the Qin
Dynasty under
the rule of Qin
Shih Huangdi.
GREAT WALL G!SPRITE
G - along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China.
S – built to keep out nomadic invaders from the North.
P – Ordered to be built by Qin Shih Huangdi.
CONFUCIUS
Teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher who stressed personal and
political organization and unity.
Undertook a
lifelong quest to
become the chief
advisor to a leader
who could restore
order in China.
Confucius
Political and social
policy became the
foundation for one
of humanity’s
greatest
civilizations.
His wisdom
was compiled
into teachings
called The
Analects.
CONFUCIUS G!SPRITE
G – traveled across China searching for a supreme ruler to become his chief
advisor.
P – encouraged bureaucracies to be created in the Qin Dynasty because of his
teachings of personal and political unity and organization..
R – His teachings were compiled into The Analects.
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“MEAN PEOPLE”
Performed rough transport and other unskilled jobs and suffered from lowest
possible status; punished for crimes more harshly than other groups; forced to
wear green identifying scarves.
Included
performing
artists, and
merchants.
“Mean
People”
Forced to
wear green
scarves to
identify
social status.
Punished
more harshly
than other
socialites.
“MEAN PEOPLE” G!SPRITE
S – Lowest social class in early China.
P – punished worse than other social classes for being “inferior”.
E – Included merchants (people who sold things) and performing artists.