Ancient China Vocabulary

a danger on the Silk Road

• cocoon

• bandits

• giraffe

• dynasty

Chinese picture writing symbols

• great wall

• bandits

• characters

• lodestone

material used to make ancient compass

• lodestone

• emperor

• smuggle

• pinyin

ancient explorer of China

• Zheng He

• dynasty

• emperor

• smuggle

longest structure ever built

• cocoon

• bandits

• forbidden city

• Great Wall

to carry goods into another country secretly, often illegally

• smuggle

• dynasty

• lodestone

• giraffe

animal brought to China by Zheng He

• elephant

• giraffe

• hippo

• monkey

New writing system in China

• pinyin

• cursive

• print

• characters

a prominent and powerful family or group of people who retain the leadership of a country through several generations

• dynasty

• lodestone

• forbidden city

• Zheng He

Home to 24 emperor

• forbidden city

• Ruston

• Grambling

• Farmerville