Chapter 11: A Great Teacher of a Great People

Chinese writing has

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• over 40,000 signs

• 26 letters

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Confucius lived around___ and wanted everyone to ___

• 1492, meditate

• 2500 BCE, live in the forest

• 500 BCE, live together peacefully

• 2025, wear plaits

Confucius' teachings include:

• bowing to your elders

• valuing outward appearances

• living together peacefully

• maintaining habits from Antiquity

To Confucius, the "root of humanity" is

• devotion to gods

• the family

• good karma

• Chinese script

Confucius believed that

• people are born honest and good

• rulers should treat their subjects with respect

• extraterrestrials built the pyramids

Lao-tzu taught

• everything is governed by one great law

• Tao is the way

• Do nothing

• Be still within yourself