Ancient China

Rive in China, known as the Yellow River

• Huang He

• Yangtze

• Gobi

• Shang

Desert In China.

• Huang He

• Yangtze

• Gobi

• Shang

First known Chinese dynasty, 1750-1045 BC.

• Xia

• Shang

• Zhou

• Dao

Lead rebels over the Shang dynasty, began the Zhou dynasty.

• Xia

• Dao

• Zhou

• Wu Wang

Having title or possession by reason of birth.

• Xia

• Hereditary

• Aristocrat

• Warlord

The belief that the Chinese king's right to rule came fro the gods.

• Mandate of Heaven

• Hereditary

• Ancestor

• Xia

Popular Chinese teacher between 550-479 BC, believed that individual's needed to carry out his or her duties.

• Xia

• Confucius

• Hanfeizi

• Zhou

Collection of Confucius's teaching.

• Dao

• Xia

• Zhou

• Analects

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

• Confucianism

• Daoism

• Leagalism

• Shang

Lived same time as Confucius, taught live simple, turn to nature, the spiritual.

• Hanfeizi

• Laozi

• Analect

• Wu Wang