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Period: 500 to 1500
Middle Ages
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Period: 960 to 1279
Song Dynasty
- Confucianism: stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct.
- Civil Service exam (bureaucracy: non-elected officials)
- Scholar-officials
- Foot binding
- Patriarchy
- Daoism: natural events, harmony
- Mandate of Heaven: justification of ruling
- Neo-Confucianism: Confucian thinking + Buddhist + Daoist elements.
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Period: 1450 to
Renaissance
Rebirth of Europe