China Vocab

political/military leader who had his own armies to help rule

• warlord
• ancestor
• pictograph
• bureaucracy

person of noble birth who owned land

• legalism
• social class
• aristocrat
• Dao

family members who had passed away

• ancestor
• hereditary
• Mandate of Heaven
• social class

characters (not letters) that represent objects

• ideograph
• pictograph
• Daoism
• Confucianism

characters (not letters) that represent ideas or events

• ideograph
• warlord
• pictograph
• aristocrat

appointed by a ruler, they carry out the day to day tasks of government

• bureaucracy
• generation
• warlord
• ancestor

passed through family

• generation
• hereditary
• ancestor
• warlord

idea that right to rule comes from the gods

• Daoism
• Confucianism
• Mandate of Heaven
• Legalism

the way

• aristocrat
• warlord
• Dao
• hereditary

philosophy in which responsibilities to certain family members or community members are extremely important

• Legalism
• Daoism
• Confucianism
• ideograph