lesson 4 confucius changes china
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Lesson 4 Confucius Changes China. Vocabulary. Confucianism Mandate of Heaven Grand School Seismograph. Han Gaozu Confucius Wudi. The Han Dynasty. In 206 B.C. the Qin Dynasty was overthrown Farmer turned general Han Gaozu overthrew it Began the powerful Han Dynasty - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Lesson 4Confucius Changes China
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Vocabulary
• Confucianism• Mandate of Heaven• Grand School• Seismograph
• Han Gaozu• Confucius• Wudi
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The Han Dynasty
• In 206 B.C. the Qin Dynasty was overthrown
• Farmer turned general Han Gaozu overthrew it
• Began the powerful Han Dynasty
• Ruled for over 400 years• Followed the ideas of
Confucius
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Confucius• Lived between 551 B.C. and
479 B.C.• Both parents died when he
was young• He had a passion for learning• Same time as Buddha in
India• His education lead to a job in
the government but later he devoted himself to teaching
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Confucianism
• Confucius’s ideas became known as Confucianism
• Not really a religion but more of a way of life
• He felt that the Chinese people had lost their traditions
• His ideas were written in The Analects
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Ideas from The Analects• Education would teach people to
be good• Central idea = respect for family• Children should respect parents• Confucius applied this to rulers
and subjects too…a subject should respect his ruler
• Mandate of Heaven = the belief that the gods gave emperors the right to rule
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Han Dynasty
• Han rulers wanted to rule more fairly unlike Shihaungdi
• They also wanted to lessen the power of the nobles
• They allowed educated people to have jobs in the government
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Wudi and The Grand School
• Wudi was the first strong emperor of the Han Dynasty
• Ruled from 140 B.C. – 87 B.C.
• Created schools for government service run by Confucian teachers
• The best students went to The Grand School.
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Learning Blossomed under Han rule
• Grand School went from 50 students to 30,000
• Predicted eclipses• Discovered new
medicines• Chinese language grew
from 3,000 to 9,000 characters
• 100 A.D. = first Chinese Dictionary
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Inventions of the Time
• Chinese invented paper made from trees
• Made from Mulberry tree
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Chinese Inventions• Invented during the Han Dynasty• Used to detect earthquakes• The vase held a long, metal
pendulum• The pendulum hit a rod inside the
vase that would hit a ball out of the dragon’s mouth
• The ball came out in the direction the earthquake occurred
• Rulers could send food and supplies to the area immediately
Seismograph
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Silk• Chinese farmers
discovered how to make silk around 2500 B.C.
• Silkworms start eating mulberry leaves in the spring
• They then spin their cocoons
• Women unwound the cocoons an twisted the strands into threads