Confucius

Confucius's ideas were put into a book called....

• The Analects
• The Quran
• The Bible
• The Buddha

Confucius was born in 551 B.C. to a ___________ but __________ family. 

• noble, poor
• friendly, sad
• orderly, happy
• prosperous, sad

Confucius decided to try ____________ after he was unable to obtain a government office.

• teaching
• rollerskating
• thinking
• wandering

Because he charged students to take ___________, he was thought to be China's first ______________ teacher.

• classes, professional
• apples, best
• money, real
• books, thinking

Confucius died in 479. B.C. believing his life had been a ____________.

• failure
• success
• kingdom
• accident

Confucius did not claim to be an original thinker but he wanted to pass on forgotten __________ of __________ people from earlier ages.

• teachings, wise
• ideas, later
• coins, old
• food, ruling

Many of Confucius' teachings focused on persuading rulers to _____________.

• reform
• eat
• teach
• leave

Confucius never wrote down his teachings, instead his ____________ wrote down his sayings after his ______________.

• students, death
• mother, dinner
• friends, leaving
• computer, growth

Confucius believed that if people could be taught to behave _____________ to one another, then ___________ and ___________ would return to society.

• properly, peace, order
• orderly, money, happiness
• righteously, ideas, people
• alone, people, rulers

Confucius said people should know their place in ___________ and _____________.

• family, society
• town, kingdom
• books, magazines
• life, death