China Vocab Quizizz

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Huang

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yellow

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Loess

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yellow-brown soil from river floods

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Middle Kingdom

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Nickname for ancient China; belief they were the center of the world.

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Patriarchy

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Society where men rule families and lineage is traced through males.

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Filial Piety

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Devotion of children to parents

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Ancestor

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a relative from whom one is descended

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Ancestor Worship

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Honoring the spirits of the dead

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Mandate of Heaven

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In ancient China, the presumed right to rule given to a dynasty by Heaven, the highest force of nature.

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Philosophy

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general study of knowledge and the world; Greek for "love of wisdom"

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Confucianism

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A belief system based on the golden rule and filial piety.