Week 2/27 Vocabulary

to become known

• emerge

• channel

• warlord

• military

a canal; a narrow body of water between two landmasses

• channel

• warlord

• military

• rely

a military commander exercising civil power by force, usually in a limited area

• warlord

• military

• rely

• aristocrat

related to soldiers, arms, or war

• military

• rely

• aristocrat

• ancestor

to be dependent on

• rely

• aristocrat

• ancestor

• pictograph

a member of an upper class of society, usually made up of hereditary nobility

• aristocrat

• ancestor

• pictograph

• ideograph

a person that someone is descended from

• ancestor

• pictograph

• ideograph

• bureaucracy

a symbol in a writing system based on pictures

• pictograph

• ideograph

• bureaucracy

• hereditary

a symbol in a writing system that represents a thing or an idea

• ideograph

• bureaucracy

• hereditary

• Mandate of Heaven

a group of non-elected government officials

• bureaucracy

• hereditary

• Mandate of Heaven

• Dao