Ancient China Vocabulary

The Chinese practice of easing pain by sticking thin needles into patients' skin is called...

• acupuncture

• aristocrat

• bureaucracy

• ideograph

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Children's respect for elders (which is an important Confucian belief) is called...

• daoism

• filial piety

• ideograph

• mandate of heaven

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Someone from whom you are descended is your...

• ancestor

• aristocrat

• bureaucracy

• clan

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

A noble whose wealth came from land ownership is a/an...

• aristocrat

• bureaucrat

• clan

• dao

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Having appointed officials responsible for different areas of the government are called...

• aristocracy

• bureaucracy

• daoism

• filial piety

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

____ is a group of families.

• ancestor

• aristocracy

• bureaucracy

• clan

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

_______ is a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes living in harmony with nature.

• Aristocracy

• Bureaucracy

• Daoism

• Legalism

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

A character that joins two or more pictographs to represent an idea is a/an...

• clan

• dao

• ideograph

• mandate of heaven

The belief the king was given the power to rule by god is called...

• Daoism

• Confucianism

• Legalism

• Mandate of Heaven

The _____ was a trade route that stretched more than 4,000 miles across Asia.

• Columbian Exchange

• Silk Road

• Timbuktu

• Trans-Saharan

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.7

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7