ANCIENT CHINA

Topics: Confucius and the well-governed state, women in ancient China, the Analects of Confucius, Lao-tzu’s Tao, comparing Confucius and Socrates, Confucianism and Legalism, China’s language and dialects, The Art of War, and the Mandate of Heaven. Assessment questions ask students to analyze whether ancient China’s great thinkers were more concerned with order and obedience or justice and individual freedom, and to describe the central ideas of ancient China’s great thinkers.