When you look at the history of china and check to see its growths and rises, you will see that the Chinese dynasties have played a major role. The first known dynasty was the Xia dynasty, which is remembered for controlling the flooding from the yellow river and helping with a new way of life for the people in farming. Take this quiz and get to see what you might learn about this dynasty and the ones that came after it.
9th Century B.C.E.
3rd Century B.C.E.
7th Century B.C.E.
4th Century B.C.E.
Sung
Qin
Han
Zhou
Confucius
Sunzi
Mencius
Xunzi
Shi
Feudal vassals of the emperor
The merchant class
Regional aristocrats
Social harmony depended on each person accepting his social position and performing his social task
The interests and welfare of the common people were less significant than the maintenance of the emperor's authority
Order and harmony were the result of good government
Superior men were created by education, not birth
Shang Yang
Xunzi
Sunzi
Laozi
Government should be rigorous and based on strict laws harshly executed
Humans were by nature inclined to goodness and ought to be ruled so that their goodness could develop
Humans should retreat from society and seek oneness with nature
Humans were by nature lazy and evil and ought to be ruled by an authoritarian government
Mencius
Laozi
Confucius
Xunzi
Mencius
Confucius
Xunzi
Laozi
Shang
Sung
Han
Qin
Sunzi
Wang Mang
Laozi
Shang Yang
Han Wudi
Han Feizi
Shi Huangdi
Shang Yang
Mencius's
Daoism
Confucian
Legalists
Government should be exercised by superior men found among the educated elite
Government is inconsequential to finding satisfaction in the unity of nature
Warfare is merely an extension of statecraft and required scientific preparation and execution
Government should be based on the authoritarian enforcement of rigorous laws
Sung
Han
Qin
Shang
They restored the strength of the regional states in the hands of feudal lords to diminish the growing power of the shi
The dynastic feudal lords were destroyed but replaced by members of the Han family in order to prevent the growing authority of the shi
Both regional feudal lords and shi were replaced in the Han administration by salaried military commanders from the army
They attempted to undercut the authority of the regional aristocracy and place power in the hands of appointed shi governors.
Temporarily the territory of the Hsiung-nu
Korea
Japan
Vietnam
Legalists
Confucian
Shang Yang's
Daoism
Imperial family
Peasants
Merchants
Shi
The imperial family
The merchant class
The regional landholders
The peasantry
The precinct of palaces reserved for the imperial family in the Han capital
The administrative precinct of the scholar-gentry in the Han capital
The burial site of Confucius
The religious precinct associated with Daoism in the Han capital
Chinese scientific explorations were all devoted to earth sciences, as they ignored astronomy and cosmology
The Chinese were almost exclusively interested in alchemy and magic
Chinese science was more involved with practical applications than general theories
Chinese science was based on the development of speculative general theories that represented what they perceived as natural law
The merchants
The scholar-gentry
The court eunuchs
The families of imperial wives
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