Chapter 8 Vocabulary

animal bones or turtle shells carved with written characters that the Shang kings used to try to tell the future

• oracle bones

• warlord

• Silk Road

• seismometer

military rulers of small states

• warlord

• censor

• monopoly

• pictograph

total disorder and confusion

• chaos

• Confucianism

• calligraphy

• loess

a set of beliefs about the world and how to live

• philosophy

• chaos

• dike

• censor

Fine, dustlike material that can form soil

• loess

• oracle bones

• pictograph

• warlord

walls to hold back water

• dike

• loess

• chaos

• warlord

Picture that represents a word or idea

• pictograph

• filial piety

• warlord

• philosophy

presumed right to rule given to a dynasty by Heaven

• Mandate of Heaven

• Womandate of Heaven

• chaos

• Daoism

Period from 481-221 BC of great conflict in ancient China

• Warring States Period

• Confucianism

• Silk Road

• Daoism

religious practice of honoring spirits of the dead

• ancestor worship

• philosophy

• pictograph

• loess