Ancient China Vocabulary

A large, complex organization that functions under a given set of rules and conditions

• Bureaucracy

• Social Pyramid

• army

• None of the above

A region in the Huang He River valley, where Chinese civilization began

• South China plain

• Vietnam

• North China Plain

• Mongolia

A person who works for a government

• General

• Civil Servant

• Civilian

• Employee

A Chinese philosophy that emphasizes proper behavior

• Buddhism

• Legalism

• Daoism

• Confucianism

A Chinese philosophy that emphasizes living in harmony with nature

• Daoism

• Legalism

• Confucianism

• Christianity

A system of government based on landowners and tenants (people who live on the land owners property).

• Land Lord

• Legalism

• Feudalism

• Daoism

A Chinese philosophy that emphasizes strict obedience to laws

• Daoism

• Legalism

• Confucianism

• Feudalism

A power or law believed to be granted by the heavens

• Mandate of Heaven

• Divine

• Religion

• Catholics

The Daoist concept of opposing forces of nature

• opposites

• Yin and Yang

• mandate of Heaven

• All of the above

A line of rulers in China that ruled after the Shang dynasty

• Xin Dynasty

• Ptolemy Dynasty

• Han Dynasty

• Zhou Dynasty