Ancient China Vocabulary

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

• philosopher

• warlord

• ancestor

• samurai

A member of an upper class of society...

• warlord

• ancestor

• aristocrat

• bureaucrat

A person that someone is descended from ...

• ancestor

• aristocrat

• bureaucrat

• civil service

A symbol in a writing system based on pictures

• Cuneiform

• pictograph

• filial piety

• Sanskrit

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

• pictograph

• Sanskrit

• incense

• ideograph

A group of non-elected government officials...

• aristocrat

• civil service

• bureaucracy

• social class

Having title or possession by reason of birth...

• hereditary

• natural right

• Mandate of Heaven

• filial piety

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

• filial piety

• Approval of Gods

• Daoism

• Mandate of Heaven

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

• Confucianism

• acupuncture

• Dao

• filial piety

A system of beliefs based on the teachings of Confucius...

• Confucianism

• Daoism

• Legalism

• Mandate of Heaven