Early Civilizations of China Vocabulary

Monopoly

• animal bone or shell carved with written characters used to predict the future

• single person or group who controls the production of a good or service

• military ruler

• style of food

Philosophy

• general study of knowledge and the world

• wall to hold back water

• tool to measure earthquakes

• dustlike material that can form soil

Civil Service

• to set rules to make things more similar

• devotion of children to their parents

• the people who work for a government

• to keep objectionable material from being revealed

Cuisine

• general study of knowledge and the world

• tool to measure earthquakes

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

• style of food

Loess

• dustlike material that can form soil

• to keep objectionable material from being revealed

• wall to hold back water

• military ruler

Great Wall

• total disorder and confusion

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

• animal bone or shell carved with written characters used to predict the future

• representative of a government sent to another country

Filial Piety

• tool to measure earthquakes

• to keep objectionable material from being revealed

• devotion of children to their parents

• single person or group who controls the production of a good or service

seismometer

• tool to measure earthquakes

• single person or group who controls the production of a good or service

• the people who work for a government

• to keep objectionable material from being revealed

warlord

• wall to hold back water

• representative of a government sent to another country

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

• military ruler

envoy

• general study of knowledge and the world

• representative of a government sent to another country

• to set rules to make things more similar

• style of food