Ancient China Vocab Quiz

A dustlike material that can form soil

• Oracle Bones

• Dike

• Loess

• Silk Road

Wall to hold back water

• Loess

• Silk Road

• Chaos

• Dike

Animal bone or shell carved with written characters that was used to predict the future in Ancient China

• Daoism

• Oracle Bones

• Ancestor Worship

• Dike

A picture that represents a word or idea

• Pictograph

• Oracle Bone

• Warlord

• Censor

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

• Daoism

• Confuscianism

• Warlord

• Mandate of Heaven

Military ruler

• Official

• Envoy

• Warlord

• Censor

Total disorder and confusion

• Confucianism

• Chaos

• Warlord

• Lacquer

A period from about 481 B.C. to 221 B.C. of great conflict in Ancient China

• Warlord

• Chaos

• Warring States Period

• Silk Road

General study of knowledge and the world; Greek for "love of wisdom"

• Daoism

• Confucianism

• Legalism

• Philosophy

Religious practice of honoring spirits of the dead

• Oracle bones

• Ancestor Worship

• Daoism

• Loess