Ancient China Vocabulary

the belief that people should give up worldly desires in favor of nature and the Dao.

• Aristocrat

• Bureaucracy

• Daoism

• Confucianism

Group of appointed officials who are responsible for different areas of government.

• Bureaucracy

• Chang Jiang

• Ideograph

• Daoism

The Yellow River, it flows across China for more than 2,900 miles.

• Dao

• Huang He

• Chang Jiang

• Mandate

formal order by the gods (the right to rule)

• Aristocrat

• Dao

• Mandate

• Pictograph

Character that joins two or more pictographs to represent an idea

• Ideograph

• Daoism

• Legalism

• Pictograph

the belief that people should put the needs of their family and community first.

• Bureaucracy

• Confucianism

• Filial piety

• Legalism

The proper way Chinese kings were expected to rule under the Mandate of Heaven

• Dao

• Chang Jiang

• Mandate

• Huang He

Nobles whose wealth came from the land they owned

• Filial piety

• Dao

• Aristocrat

• Confucianism

The Yangtze River flows for 3,400 miles and empties into the Yellow Sea

• Mandate

• Aristocrat

• Huang He

• Chang Jiang

Characters that stand for objects

• Legalism

• Ideograph

• Pictograph

• Chang Jiang