Ancient China Vocab

a person from whom one is descended

• ancestor
• civil service

• import

• ethnocentrism

the group of people whose job it is to carry out the work of the government

• empire

• import

• civil service

• loess

Levels of society based on wealth and power

• cultural diffusion

• levee

• export

• social class

To bring goods into a civilization from another place

• feudalism

• export

• import

• levee

Goods that are sent out of a civilization to another civilization

• export
• import

• ethnocentrism

• feudalism

A wall built to prevent the overflow of a river

• levee
• loess

• ancestor

• social class

A fine yellow soil that is left behind by the Huang He river and is used for farming

• levee

• ethnocentrism

• loess

• empire

The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another

• ethnocentrism

• loess

• cultural diffusion

• empire

Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.

• ethnocentrism
• cultural diffusion

• feudalism

• civil service

A group of states or territories controlled by one ruler

• social class

• cultural diffusion

• feudalism

• empire