Review Guide for Mid-Term I

Significant Terms:

  • Han Chinese
  • eunuch
  • li
  • Orient
  • Han Dynasty
  • Myth of Asia
  • ren
  • Qin Dynasty
  • oracle bones
  • Mandate of Heaven
  • Sun Tsu
  • Aristotle
  • Chang An
  • Wang Mang
  • Teggart
  • Marx
  • Xia
  • Dynasty
  • Dynastic Cycle
  • Five Classics
  • Xung Zi
  • Han Feizi
  • Marco Polo
  • Wade Giles
  • Kung Fu Tsu
  • pinyin
  • Mencius
  • Zhou Dynasty
  • Lao Dan
  • Karl Jaspers
  • Tokarians
  • Shang Dynasty
  • Yellow Turbans
  • Great Wall
  • semi-autonomous zone
  • Five Elements

Essay Questions:

  1. Why and how should Westerners, and especially historians from the West, be careful when approaching the study of early Chinese history?
  2. How have the Chinese interpreted the story of their early history and what may have led them to do so?
  3. How did the Han Dynasty use lessons from all of the philosophic traditions in its 400 year cycle
  4. How has the Chinese written language served as a means of social cohesion from the Shang through the Han periods?
  5. How has the status and role of women evolved in Chinese society since the Shang times?
  6. How have farming and farmers played a role in defining Chinese history through the Han period?

Extra

* I will give you a few quotes to match with the various philosophers.

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