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| Ethnocentrism | characterized by or based on the attitude that one's own group is superior |
| Imperialism | the policy, practice, or advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions or by gaining indirect control over the political or economic life of other areas; |
| Dynasty | a powerful group or family that maintains its position for a considerable time |
| Silk Road | Famous trade route that connect China to the Western world |
| Great Leap Forward | Program that Mao instituted in hopes of catching China up to the West. it was agreat failure |
| Red Guard | a member of a paramilitary youth organization in China in the 1960s |
| Communism | a totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production |
| Cultural Revolution | Desperate attempt to install revolution spirit among the Chinese |
| Teananman Square | The site of a prodemocratic student uprising and massacre in China; 1989 |
| Confucius | Chinese teacher & philosopher; became the most revered person in Chinese history; his teachings form basis of Confucianism |
| Daoism/Taoism | Chinese mystical philosophy traditionally founded by Lao-tzu in the 6th century B.C. that teaches conformity to the Tao by unassertive action and simplicity |
| Legalism | strict, literal, or excessive conformity to the law or to a religious or moral code <the institutionalized legalism that restricts free choice: a school of thought |
| Sphere of Influence | a territorial area within which the political influence or the interests of one nation are held to be more or less paramount; China was divided into these by European powers |
| Kowtow | to kneel and touch the forehead to the ground in token of homage, worship, or deep respect |
| Open Door Policy | Policy written by the US that called for equal access to China |
| Opium Wars | Series of wars fought between China and Britian |
| Great Wall | One of the seven wonders of the world built to keep invaders from the north out of China |
| Ancestor Worship | the custom of venerating deceased ancestors who are considered still a part of the family and whose spirits are believed to have the power to intervene in the affairs of the living |
| Mao Zedong | First communist leader of China |
| Chiang Kai Shek | Leader of the Nationalist forced to flee to Taiwan |
| Extraterritoriality | Law that a foriegner will be tried for crimes in his/her own country |
| Unequal Treaty | Treatise the China was forced to sign with European powers |
| Sun Yatsen | first provisional president of Republic of China (1911-12); regarded as the father of modern China |
| Collective Farms | Farmers pooled all resorces and shared all profits; a program instituted by Mao |
| Communes | A group of up to 20,000 people living together; instituted by Mao |
| Little Red Book | A book of Mao sayings which every Chinese person was required to carry and read from |
