Society and Culture in Ancient China

What is Confucianism?

• a system of beliefs based on the teachings of Confucius

• a chinese philosophy concerned with obtaining long life and harmony with nature

What is Daoism?

• a chinese philosophy concerned with obtaining long life and harmony with nature

• the responsibility children have to respect, obay, and care for their parents

What is filial piety?

• the responsibility children have to respect, obay, and care for their parents

• a single human being as contrasted with a group

What is an individual?

• a single human being as contrasted with a group

• a chinese philosophy that stressed the importance of laws

What is legalism?

• a chinese philosophy that stressed the importance of laws

• the study of the basic ideas about society, education, and right and wrong

What is philosophy?

• the study of the basic ideas about society, education, and right and wrong

• having things in common

What does similar mean?

• having things in common

• a group of people who are at a similar cultural, economic, or education life

What are social classes?

• a group of people who are at a similar cultural, economic, or education life

• having things in common

In early China, which of the following was something done mostly by women?

• raising children

• overseeing the education of their children

• all of the above

• managing household finances

Followers of Legalism wanted to increase freedom for Chinese people by doing away with all laws.

• true

• false