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chapter 10 vocab
early china vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| warlord | a military commander that controls a limited area |
| aristocrat | a member of the upper class made up of hereditary nobility |
| 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 |
| bureaucracy | a group of non elected government officials |
| hereditary | having title or possession by reason of birth |
| mandate of heaven | the belief that the Chinese kings right to rule came from gods |
| Dao | Chinese system of beliefs which describes the way a king must rule |
| Confucianism | a system of beliefs based on the teachings of Confucius |
| Daoism | a Chinese philosophy concerned with obtaining long life and living in harmony with nature |
| legalism | a Chinese philosophy that stressed the importance of laws |
| filial piety | the responsibility children have to respect obey and care for there parents |
| censor | an official who watches others for correct behavior |
| currency | something such as coins or paper money that is used as a medium of exchange |
| civil service | the administrative service of a government |
| tenant farmer | a farmer who works land owned by someone else and pays rent in cash or as a share of crops |
| acupuncture | an originally Chinese practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to treat disease or relieve pain |
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