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Ancient China
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Term | Definition |
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Confucius | Desired a return to family order and social harmony |
Legalism | The belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled |
Zhou | The longest lasting Chinese dynasty |
Daoism | Stressed living in harmony with the guiding force of all reality |
Lords | People of high rank who received land in exchange |
peasants | The lowest social class farmed noble lands |
ethics | Moral values |
The Analects | A book of Confucius's teachings complied by his students |
Laozi | Wrote -The way and Its Power, the basic text expressing Daoist thought |
Legalists | The first to put their ideas into practice throughout China |