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Title: Confucius


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Confucius
  • AP World History

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  • Born to an unwed teenage mother
  • Life was a trail of tears
  • Abandons his own wife and kids to help change
    China
  • Dies believing he has failed
  • Time of chaos in China, feudal nature

3
  • He was the son of one of Chinas fiercest
    warriors
  • 2 wives 9 daughters and 1 crippled son
    financial impact
  • Took a 16 year old concubine
  • Baby was huge and ugly big nose, forehead
    bulged, head was dented
  • Legend changes birth to divine circumstances
  • His father dies 3 years after his birth
  • Mom and son rejected must leave village

4
  • Christian missionaries gave him the name
    Confucius, he never heard the name
  • Confucius had to work to help make living
  • Had strong drive to learn, very curious
  • Hardship taught lessons
  • Noble deeds, not noble birth
  • Family love is greater than gold

5
  • Illegitimate, impoverished orphan no family
    money and no connections
  • Tradition says he was 96 probably 6
  • Genius vs. brute strength
  • Got job overseeing granary grain money
  • He marries and starts family
  • He spends most of his time in library, looking
    through Chinas past for key to Chinas future

6
  • Education leads to disappearance to class
    distinction
  • The quality of a person
  • Wanted to find justice and truth
  • Gets political positions but not the
    positions that he wants but he still tries
  • Not just judge case but conditions that allowed
    the case to happen
  • Old friend/ally gives him position others
    distract him with women
  • Reformers were feared!

7
  • Oppressive government worse than man-eating tiger
  • Leaders should model to people
  • He usually found resentment and hostility
  • His students were his true family
  • Favorite disciple dies before Confucius says
    Heaven turned against him
  • Contentment and love of learning keys
  • Dies at 73
  • Will no ruler come forward and take me as his
    master
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