Ancient China Vocabulary

a dustlike material that can form soil

• lacquer

• dike

• loess

• standardize

payments of money

• income

• Legalism

• standardize

• monopoly

something that is difficult or demanding to do

• challenge

• collapse

• interpret

• stable

to explain or give the meaning of

• uniform

• stable

• interpret

• challenge

able to last; not likely to fall apart

• assign

• stable

• benefit

• obtain

devotion of children to their parents

• official

• civil service

• oracle bone

• filial piety

general study of knowledge and the world; Greek for "love of wisdom"

• logograph

• philosophy

• cuisine

• calligraphy

wall to hold back water

• acupuncture

• calligraphy

• dike

• Silk Road

animal bone or shell carved with written characters that was used to predict the future in ancient China

• oracle bone

• lacquer

• cuisine

• civil service

a picture that represents a word or idea

• filial piety

• philosophy

• pictograph

• logograph