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Chapter 5 Vocab.

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Yao   was a legendary Chinese ruler, one of the Three Sovereigns and the Five Emperors  
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Shun   was a legendary leader of ancient China, regarded by some sources as one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors  
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Yu   was a legendary ruler in ancient China famed for his introduction of flood control, inaugurating dynastic rule in China by founding the Xia Dynasty, and for his upright moral character  
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Xia   is the first dynasty in traditional Chinese history  
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Shang   is the second dynasty of the Three Dynasties Period  
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Zhou   was a Chinese dynasty that followed the Shang dynasty and preceded the Qin dynasty  
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Chu   a state during the Zhou dynasty  
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Legitimacy   the state or quality of being legitimate  
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"Mandate of heaven"   is an ancient Chinese belief and philosophical idea that heaven granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well and fairly  
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Conspicuous   standing out so as to be clearly visible  
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Mariners   a sailor  
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Scribes   a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented  
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Secular   denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis  
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Yangzin river   is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world  
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Yellowriver   is the third-longest river in Asia, following the Yangtze River and Yenisei River, and the sixth-longest river in the world  
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