Ancient China Vocabulary

a desert area with very dry grasslands and no trees

• Loess

• Steppe

• Legalism

• Silk Road

a fine yellow soil that is windblown, causing the Huang He River to earn the name "Yellow River"

• Steppe

• Plateau

• Loess

• Silk

ruled by a royal family

• Monarchy

• Dynasty

• Filial Piety

• Daoism

rich landowners at the top of the social classes

• Royalty

• Confucians

• Feudals

• Aristocrats

a symbol in a writing system that represents a thing or an idea

• Mandate of Heaven

• Ideograph

• Filial Piety

• Daoism

the right to rule comes from the gods

• Filial Piety

• Aristocracy

• Mandate of Heaven

• Monarchy

a Chinese philosophy based on the importance of laws

• Legalism

• Confucianism

• Daoism

• Civil Service

a Chinese philosophy focused on obtaining long life and living in harmony with nature

• Legalism

• Confucianism

• Daoism

• Filial Piety

a belief system that teaches about the respect and loyalty in five relationships to bring goodness to society

• Legalism

• Confucianism

• Daoism

• Mandate of Heaven

the responsibility children have to respect, obey, and care for their parents

• Monarchy

• Filial Piety

• Confucianism

• Civil Service