WH- Ch. 10: Ancient China Vocabulary

Originally, a Chinese practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to treat disease or relieve pain.

• aristocrat

• acupuncture

• currency

• tenant farmer

A Chinese philosophy concerned with obtaining long life and living in harmony with nature.

• warlord

• Daoism

• legalism

• tenant farmer

A Chinese philosophy that stressed the importance of laws.

• Confucianism

• Daoism

• legalism

• censor

Chinese system of beliefs which describes the way a king must rule.

• pictograph

• ideograph

• warlord

• Dao

Something, such as coins or paper money, that is used as a medium of exchange.

• aristocrat

• currency

• warlord

• filial piety

A member of an upper class of society, usually made up of hereditary nobility.

• filial piety

• bureaucracy

• warlord

• aristocrat

A group of non-elected government officials.

• aristocrat

• bureaucracy

• hereditary

• ancestor

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

• pictograph

• ideograph

• Dao

• aristocrat

The administrative service of a government.

• civil service

• bureaucracy

• Mandate of Heaven

• filial piety

Having title or possession by reason of birth

• hereditary

• civil service

• bureaucracy

• ancestor