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Ancient China Vocab
Term | Definition |
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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 |