China Vocabulary Review

a military commander exercising civil power by force, usually in a limited area

• warlord
• ancestor
• aristocrat
• bureaucracy

a member of an upper class of society, usually made up of hereditary nobility

• ancestor
• aristocrat
• social class
• tenant farmer

a person that someone is descended from

• filial piety
• hereditary
• censor
• ancestor

a symbol in a writing system based on pictures

• ideograph
• pictograph
• bureaucracy
• currency

a symbol in a writing system that represents a thing or an idea

• pictograph
• warlord
• acupuncture
• ideograph

a group of non-elected government officials

• bureaucracy
• warlord
• aristocrat
• Mandate of Heaven

having title or possession by reason of birth

• pictograph
• bureaucracy
• hereditary
• Daoism

the belief that the Chinese king’s right to rule came from the gods

• Confucianism
• Mandate of Heaven
• Dao
• Daoism

Chinese system of beliefs which describes the way a king must rule

• Mandate of Heaven
• Confucianism
• Dao
• Daoism

a system of beliefs based on the teachings of Confucius

• Doa
• Legalism
• Daoism
• Confucianism