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Ancient China Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| warlord | A military commander exercising civil Power by force usually in a limited area |
| aristocrats | A member of an upper class of society, usually made up of hereditary nobility |
| ancestors | A person that Someone is descended from |
| pictographs | a symbol in a writing system based on pictures |
| ideographs | a symbol in a writing system that represents a thing or an idea |
| bureaucracy | group of selected officials who do different government jobs |
| heredity | heredity having title or possession by reason of birth |
| Mandate of Heaven | the belief that the Chinese Kings right to rule came from the 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 | The Chinese philosophy that stressed the importance of laws |
| social class | a group of people who are at a similar cultural economic or educational level |
| filial piety | the responsibility children have to respect, obey, and care for their parents |
| censor | and 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 | a person’s personal duty, based on the individual's place in society |
| tenant farmers | a farmer who works land owned by someone else and pays rent and cash for as a share of the crop |
| acupuncture | a Chinese practice of inserting fine needles through the skin to treat disease or relieve pain |
| oracle bones | cattle bones (but Chinese believed they were dragon bones); were heated over a fire, and the cracks were read by priests, believed to predict the future. |
| loess | a dusty, yellow soil that was good for farming |