Ancient China Power Words

An extensive interconnected network of trade routes across Asia, North and Northeast Africa, and Europe, historically used by silk traders.

• Mandate of Heaven

• Silk Road

• diviner

• pictograph

The Chinese philosophical concept of the circumstances under which a ruler is allowed to rule

• Filial Piety

• Taoism

• legalism

• Mandate of Heaven

One who foretells the future.

• diviner

• legalism

• dynasty

• Taoism

Respect owed to one's parents and ancestors.

• philosophy

• diviner

• Filial Piety

• loess

a picture that represents a word or an idea

• pictograph

• oracle bones

• terracotta army

• loess

A social system based on personal ownership of resources and personal fealty between a lord and a subject.

• legalism

• feudalism

• Taoism

• diviner

Any sediment, dominated by silt

• dynasty

• pictograph

• loess

• diviner

A piece of turtle shell or bone used for divination during the late Shang dynasty of China.

• loess

• terracotta army

• pictograph

• oracle bone

An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning. 

• philosophy

• legalism

• dynasty

• Filial Piety

An ancient Chinese fortification, almost 4,000 miles long, originally designed to protect China from the Mongols.

• Silk Road

• Mandate of Heaven

• terracotta army

• Great Wall of China