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China
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| huang | yellow |
| loess | yellow-brown soil deposited when the river floods |
| ancestor | a relative from whom one is descended |
| feudalism | a strict social system in which landowners grant people land or other rewards in exchange for military service or labor |
| Confucianism | a belief system based on the ideas of the Chinese thinker Confucius |
| Legalism | an ancient Chinese philosophy stating that a strong leader and a strong legal system, not moral values, are needed to create social order |
| Daoism | a philosophy of following the Dao, that is, the natural way of the universe |
| Great Wall | long wall running east and west along the Chinese empire's northern border |
| Mandate of Heaven | in ancient China, the presumed right to rule given to a dynasty by Heaven, the highest force of nature |
| patriarchy | society in which men rule their families, and people trace their origins through male ancestors |
| philosophy | general study of knowledge and the world; Greek for "love of wisdom" |
| filial piety | the devotion of children to their parents |
| ancestor worship | practice of honoring the spirits of the dead |
| Buddhism | A non-theistic religion (no belief in a creator god), also considered a philosophy and a moral discipline, originating in India in the 6th and 5th centuries BCE. It was founded by Siddhartha Gautama |
| bureaucracy | a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives |
| Silk Road | network of trade routes connecting the east and west; gets its name from the silk trade carried along its length |
| Middle Kingdom | nickname for ancient China; comes from their belief that they were the center of the world |