Imperial China Vocabulary

flat, dry grassland

• steppe

• porcelain

• census

• calligraphy

violent acts that are meant to cause fear in people

• terror

• civil

• regime

• unify

a ceramic made of fine clay baked at very high temperatures

• porcelain

• novel

• steppe

• census

a long, fictional story

• novel

• principle

• convert

• census

a new form of the ideas of the philosopher Confucius; included Buddhist and Daoist beliefs

• neo-Confucianism

• regime

• census

• terror

a count of the number of people in a country

• census

• novel

• regime

• convert

artistic handwriting

• calligraphy

• porcelain

• census

• novel

uncivilized people

• barbarians

• regime

• convert

• steppe

to bring something back to an original state; to bring something back to an earlier or better condition.

• restore

• unify

• method

• convert

of or relating to citizens; relating to the state or government

• civil

• method

• census

• steppe