Ancient China Vocab Quiz

Military leader who runs a government is called a 

• Warlord
• Census
• Reform
• Novel

A member of the upper class of society, usually made up of hereditary nobility.

• Ancestor
• Aristocrat
• Ideograph
• Bureacracy

A symbol in a writing system based on pictures.

• Hieroglyphics
• Pictograph
• Sanskrit
• Cuneiform

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

• Pictograph
• Ideograph
• Aristocrat
• Bureacracy

A group of nonelected government officials.

• Bureaucrat
• Bureaucracy
• Hereditary
• Mandate of heaven

The belief that the Chinese king's rule came from the gods.

• Monotheism
• Polytheism
• Hinduism
• Mandate of Heaven

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

• Dao
• Buddhism
• Mandate of Heaven
• Bureaucracy

A system of beliefs based on the teachings of Confucius.

• Confucianism
• Legalism
• Mandate of Heaven
• Daoism

A Chinese philosophy concerned with obtaining long life and living in harmony with nature.

• Confucianism
• Legalism
• Daoism
• Bureacracy

A Chinese philosophy that stressed the importance of laws.

• Daoism
• Confucianism
• Buddhism
• Legalism