Lesson 1 - Early Civilization of East Asia

By around 5000 BCE, farmers in china had settled in villages near the ___.

• Nile River

• Huang River

• Pearl River

in ancient China, the right to rule given to a dynasty by Heaven, the highest force of nature

• dynasty

• Great wall

• Mandate of Heaves

a ruling family that holds power for many years.

• Ancestor

• dynasty

• clan

long wall running east and west along the Chinese empire's northern border

• land

• silk road

• Great Wall

series of trade routes that crossed Asia and connected China to the Mediterranean Sea.

• Silk river

• Silk Road

• Silk route

Idea spread by the silk road.

• Hinduism

• Jainism

• Buddhism

a system of government employees mainly selected for their ability

• legalism

• civil service

• exempt

• distinctive

an ancient Chinese philosophy stating that a strong leader and a strong legal system, not moral values, are needed to create social order

• Legalism

• civil service

• exempt

• distinctive

free from, not subject to

• legalism

• civil service

• distinctive

• exempt

setting a person or thing apart

• legalism

• civil service

• distinctive

• exempt