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| An innovative and ruthless people. Located on the Wei River in northwest China. Controlled two of the most fertile areas in China. Reforms included the building of roads, creation of writing, weight, and measuring systems. |
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| The capital of the ancient Chinese Empire |
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| Eight thousand life size sculptures guarding the tomb of the First Emperor, |
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| The term used to describe the rise, decline, and fall of China’s imperial dynasties. |
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| characterized by consolidation of the centralized imperial state and territorial expansion |
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| “martial emperor.” Began the second dynastic cycle of the Han. Daring, vigorous, and intelligent, but also superstitious, suspicious, and vengeful. |
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| Trade route from China to the West that stretched across Central Asia. |
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| An extension of Zhou Confucianism by the addition of cosmological naturalism. Believed all nature was a single, interrelated system. |
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| greatest historians of premodern world. Their history was seen as a lesson book for the statesmen. |
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| a doctrine of personal salvation that held high standards of personal ethics. |
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