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Ch.10 Vocabulary
China vocab Ch.10
Term | Definition |
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Warlords | A military commander exercising civil power |
Aristocrat | A member of an upper class of society, usually made up of hereditary nobility. |
Military | Related to soldiers, arms, or war. |
Rely | to be dependent. |
Ancestor | A person that someone is descended from. |
Pictograph | A symbol in a writing system based on pictures. |
Ideograph | A symbol in a writing system that represents a thing or an idea. |
Bureauaracy | A group of non-elected government officials. |
Heredity | Having title or possession by reason of birth. |
Mandate of Heaven | The belief that the Chinese king right to rule came from the Gods. |
Dao | Chinese system of belied based on the teachings of Confucius. |
Confucianisn | a system of beliefs based on the teachings of Confucius |
legalism | A Chinese philosophy that stressed the importance of laws |
Filial piety | The responsibility chi |