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AncientChinaVocabSS
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| A network of trade routes that stretched across Asia from China to the Mediterranean Sea. | Silk Road |
| The process of making something conform alike. | Standardization |
| A special or individual possession; an allotted portion. ( Passed down from Generation) | Heritage |
| Selling products or services produced in another country. (Gaining items from trading) | Import |
| A financial gain. | Profit |
| A philosophy that developed in China and stressed the belief that one should live in harmony with the Dao, the guiding force of all reality. | Daoism |
| the work of building such things as roads, schools, and reservoirs large lakes, carried out by the government for the community. | Public Works |
| A philosophy based on the ideas of Confucius that focuses on mortality, family order, social harmony, and government. ( The official religion for the Han Dynasty) | Confucianism |
| A war between citizens of the same country. | Civil War |
| The Chinese belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled. | Legalism |
| A person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields. (The study of the meaning of live) | Philosopher |
| Items sent to other regions for trade. ( originally yours, trading to another region) | Export |
| A military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency. ( volunteer soldier) | Militia |
| A traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but not valid or proven. | Legends |
| A prediction by a wise person, or a person who makes a prediction. | Oracle |
| A relative (s) who lived in the past. | Ancestors |
| The idea that there could be only one legitimate ruler of China at a time, and that this ruler had the blessing of the gods.( The order to rule from God) | Mandate of Heaven |
| A picture symbol representing a word or letter. | Pictograph |
| An official representative for his or her country, stationed in another nation ( Representative of a government) | Ambassador |
| A body of unelected government officials.( appointed) | Bureaucracy |