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Qin Shi Huangdi ordered BOOKS about the past to be BURNED and scholars to be executed.
censorship (sen-sor-ship)
PUBLIC SERVICE where EMPLOYMENT is usually based on a competitive EXAMINATION.
civil service
A set of principles of PROPER CONDUCT and MORAL Judgment.
ethics
A CONFUCIAN BELIEF that children must RESPECT their parents and ELDERS.
filial piety (fill ee al pi et ee)
A line of fortifications across northern China; built in the third century B.C. to provided PROTECTION from the NORTH.
Great Wall of China
He was a military official from a peasant background who OVERTHREW the QIN DYNASTY (207 B.C.)
Liu Bang
A member of high PUBLIC OFFICIALS in the CHINESE EMPIRE; well educated civil servants.
Mandarin (man-da-rin)
CHINESE RULERS were considered DIVINE and CHOSEN BY THE GODS TO RULE as long as they were fair rulers.
Mandate of Heaven
CHINESE PEACE; under the HAN DYNASTY, China experienced 400 years of prosperity and stability.
Pax Sinica (PAHKS SIH-nuh-kuh)
First EMPEROR of the QIN DYNASTY; reorganized government, standardized coins and laws, connected the GREAT WALL OF CHINA.
Qin Shi Huangdi
An ancient TRADE ROUTE between CHINA and the MEDITERRANEAN SEA extending almost 4,000 miles and LINKING CHINA WITH THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
Silk Road
During the Han dynasty, he WROTE the historical record, the FIRST TRUE HISTORY OF ANCIENT CHINA.
Sima Qian
Made the SAME throughout the empire.
standardized (stan-dard-ized)
Under his rule, the HAN dynasty expanded Chinese borders, conquered nomadic tribes, and created the SILK ROAD.
Wudi
A TAOIST IDEA that two OPPOSING FORCES are present in all nature and in order for there to be harmony the forces must be BALANCED.
Yin and Yang
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