Ancient China

a fine, dustlike material that can form fertile soil

• Dike

• Loess

• Maandate of Heaven

• Filial piety

the earliest written Chinese records are bones carved with pictographs

• Pictograph

• philosophy

• Oracle Bones

• Warring states

represent words or ideas

• Oracle Bones

• Pictograph

• Daoism

• chaos

a wall that is built to hold back water

• loess

• mandate of heaven

• great wall of china

• dike

gave dynasties the right to rule

• Mandate of Heaven

• warlord

• filial piety

• Confucianism

are military rulers of small states

• Chaos

• mandate of Heaven

• Warlord

• loess

total disorder and confusion

• warlord

• philosophy

• Chaos

• warring States Period

brutal and destructive conflict

• chaos

• Warring States Period

• loess

• ancestor worship

a set of beliefs about the world and how to live

• philosophy

• culture

• filial piety

• Daaoism

practices of honoring the dead

• filial piety

• Confusciaanism

• Daoism

• Ancestor Worship