Ancient China Vocabulary

the idea that children should honor and care for their parents

• Mandate of Heaven

• Filial piety

• Ancestors

• Ideographs

a military leader who controls an area of land

• warlord

• aristocrat

• ancestor

• philosophy

a philosophy that stressed the importance of laws and following the rules of society

• Confucianism

• Daoism

• Legalism

• Mandate of Heaven

upper class citizens who hold wealth and power

• warlord

• aristocrats

• ancestors

• philosophy

a philosophy centered around respecting nature and treating it with respect

• Confucianism

• Daoism

• Legalism

• Filial piety

a person that someone is descended from

• philosophy

• aristocrat

• warlord

• ancestor

a system of beliefs based on the ideas of Confucius

• Confucianism

• Daoism

• Legalism

• Mandate of Heaven

a symbol or picture in a writing system that represents an object

• aristocrat

• philosophy

• ideograph

• pictograph

the study of the basic ideas and beliefs of a society

• filial piety

• philosophy

• ideograph

• pictograph

a symbol or picture in a writing system that combines two or more pictographs to express an idea

• ideograph

• pictograph

• philosophy

• ancestor