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china vocabulary
china vocabulary Natalia Guillen
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Subtle | adj. delicate; finely detailed |
| Minimize | v. to reduce to as little or as few as possible |
| Retain | v. to keep; hold on to |
| Define | v. to state the meaning of |
| Alter | v. to change |
| Compound | n. combination of different chemical ingrediants |
| Tang Taizong | a military leader who founded the Tang dynasty |
| Bureaucracy | a system of government with many departments and bureaus, all headed by appointed officials |
| Empress Wu | only emperor woman in Chinese history |
| Li Bo | famous Chinese poet |
| Scholar officials | highly educated civil servants who entered government only after passing special examinations |
| merit system | a process for hiring and promoting people based on talent and skills rather than on wealth or social status |
| urbanization | growth of cities |
| nirvana | a state of complete peace |
| Wuzong | devoted Daoist |
| Zhu xi | famous Neo-Confucian thinker |
| land tenure | refers to the way land is owned and distributed in a region |
| money economy | economy in which people use currency rather than barter to buy or sell goods |
| porcelain | a hard white pottery of extremely fine quality |