Ch.7 Ancient China Vocabulary

Confucius

• people of high rank

• farmers with small farms

• most influential teacher in Chinese history; emphasized ethical behavior for individuals and governments

• moral values

• a philosophy based on the ideas of Confucius that focuses on morality, family order, and government

Peasants

• people of high rank

• farmers with small farms

• most influential teacher in Chinese history; emphasized ethical behavior for individuals and governments

• moral values

• a philosophy based on the ideas of Confucius that focuses on morality, family order, and government

Confucianism

• people of high rank

• farmers with small farms

• most influential teacher in Chinese history; emphasized ethical behavior for individuals and governments

• moral values

• a philosophy based on the ideas of Confucius that focuses on morality, family order, and government

Ethics

• people of high rank

• farmers with small farms

• most influential teacher in Chinese history; emphasized ethical behavior for individuals and governments

• moral values

• a philosophy based on the ideas of Confucius that focuses on morality, family order, and government

Laozi

• an early Chinese belief that stressed living in harmony with the universe

• the most famous Taoist teacher & philosopher, credited with writing The Way and Its Power, the basic Taoist text

• Ruler of China, he united China for the first time. He built roads & canals and began the Great Wall of China

• a barrier built by the Qin Dynasty that linked earlier walls across China's northern frontier

• a device that uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell time

Along what river did China's earliest civilizations develop? Also known as the Yellow River and China's Sorrow

• Huang He (Yellow)
• Indus
• Yangtze
• Nile

The right of a Chinese Dynasty to rule with the blessings of the Gods is called...?

• The Mandate of Heaven
• The Dynastic Cycle
• The Heavenly Commandments
• The Oracle Bones

What is the purpose of the structure pictured here?

• It is a temple
• To protect China's northern border
• To protect China's Southern border
• To protect China from India 

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

Trade route that stretched from western China to southern Asia

• filial piety
• Silk Road
• Great Wall
• Anyang

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

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

• Confucianism
• Mandate of Heaven
• dynasty
• Daoism