| A | B |
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| Analects | The book of Confucius teachings |
| Boxer Rebellion | Led by a group known as the righteous and harmonious order of fists. They were an anti foreign group. They’re goal was to drive out foreigners which they thought would make the Manchus fall |
| Commune | Mao’s reform of agriculture in China set up these large shared farms |
| Communism | form of complete socialism in which there is a public ownership of all land and the all the means of production |
| Cultural Revolution | Mao’s attempt from 1966-1976 to eliminate opposition to him and improve Communist thought |
| Daoism | Belief that human nature was neither good or bad and the unity of nature could show people the way |
| Ethnocentrism | belief that one’s culture is superior to all other cultures |
| Extraterritoriality | foreigners in China were not tried in Chinese courts they were tried in European courts |
| Filial Piety | Respect and obedience for your elders, especially your parents |
| Great Leap Forward | Mao’s 1958 effort to make China a modernized economy in 5 years. It failed badly. |
| Great Wall | 180,000 mile long wall built during the Qin Dynasty to keep Mongols out. |
| Guomingdang | the Nationalist Party started by Sun Yatsen |
| Jen | A universal love and concern for all others' especially important for the emperor to show |
| Kowtow | Act required of foreigners to show their inferiority to the Chinese |
| Legalism | philosophy founded by Han Feizi. Important during the Qin Dynasty. People were believed to be evil and strict laws and harsh punishments were needed to control them. |
| Long March | Mao ZeDong led the Communist and they were chased by the Nationalists out of China during a 6,000 mile long trek throughout China. |
| Manchus | foreign rulers of China during the Qing Dynasty |
| mandate of heaven | the belief that the dynasties had the approval of the gods to rule |
| Middle Kingdom | How China referred to itself because it was below heaven but above the rest of the world |
| Mongols | Foreign rulers during the Yuan Dynasty. They were well known for being highly skilled warriors and they set up the largest empire in world history. |
| Monsoons | seasonal winds that control the climate in Asia |
| Open door policy | set up by U.S. secretary of State John Hay. The goal was to allow U.S. trade in China. It allowed any nation to trade anywhere in China. |
| Opium War | 3 weeks of fighting which the British won easily. The Chinese were embarrassed and exposed as weak, so British were able to get what they wanted from the Chinese. |
| Red Guard | fanatic, teenage supporters of Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution |
| Silk Road | trade route Europeans traveled to get silk from the Chinese |
| Spheres of Influence | an area of a country in which a foreign nation has special economic privileges |
| Silt | yellow pieces of fertile soil carried along in the river |
| Taiping Rebellion | most serious peasant uprising where they tried to kick foreigners out starting with the Manchus during the Qing Dynasty. |
| Three Principles of the People | ideas of Sun Yatsen who pushed for modernization of China: Nationalism, Democracy, and Livelihood |
| One Child Policy | adopted in 1979, the current birth control policy in the mainland of the People's Republic of China. |
| Land Reform | Mao Zedong's policy which promised farm land to peasants |
