Ancient China Vocab

A military commander exercising civil power by force, usually in a limited area

• Aristocrat

• Censor

• Warlord

• Ancestor

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

• Aristocrat

• Warlord

• Censor

• Ancestor

A person that someone is descended from

• Aristocrat

• Warlord

• Censor

• Ancestor

A symbol in a writing system based on pictures

• Pictograph

• Ideograph

• Calligraphy

• Drawings

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

• Alphabet

• Ancestor

• Pictograph

• Ideograph

A group of non-elected officials

• Dao

• Bureaucracy

• Hereditary

• Government System

Having title or possession by reason of birth

• Hereditary

• King Order

• Bureaucracy

• Ancestor

The belief that the Chinese king's right to rule came from the gods

• Daoism

• Confucianism

• Mandate of Heaven

• Buddhism

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

• Dao

• Daoism

• Censor

• Civil Service

A system of beliefs based on the teachings of Confucius

• Legalism

• Daoism

• Neo-Confucianism

• Confucianism