Chapter 2 Vocabulary

Charbornay Johnson8/29/12

2nd Block

Qin DynastyZhou Dynasty

Great WallConfucius

“Mean People”

VOCABULARY

Established in 221 BCE at the end of the Warring States period following the decline of the Zhou Dynasty.

QIN DYNASTY

Thinking Map

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.

Originally a vassal family of Shang China; possibly Turkic in origin; overthrew the Shang and established 2nd historical

Chinese Dynasty that flourished 1122 to 256 BCE.

ZHOU DYNASTY

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.

Chinese defensive fortification intended to keep out the nomadic invaders from the North; initiated during the Qin Dynasty during the

reign of Shih Huangdi.

GREAT WALL OF CHINA

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.

Teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher who stressed personal and political organization and unity.

CONFUCIUS

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.

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.

“MEAN PEOPLE”Back to Vocab

“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.