China Power Words

rulers from the same family.

• dynasty

• bureaucracy

• aristocracy

• Emperor

highest class in a society.

• aristocracy

• dynasty

• bureaucracy

• warlord

government run by many nonelective officials.

• bureaucracy

• aristocracy

• Mandate of Heaven

• Emperor

bronze casting

• a process used in ancient times to create bronze sculptures.

• pieces of turtle bone or shell used to predict future events by supernatural powers.

• important bronze casting that protected you from evil spirits.

• massive collection of clay sculptures representing an army of Qin Shi Huang, the first Chinese Emperor.

Mandate of Heaven

• belief that Heaven kept order in the universe through the Zhou Dynasty.

• important bronze casting that protected you from evil spirits.

• pieces of turtle bone or shell used to predict future events by supernatural powers.

• ideas and philosophy of Confucius-ethical and not spiritual.

important bronze casting that protected you from evil spirits.

• Taotie mask

• legalism

• bronze casting

• oracle bones

a sovereign ruler with great power and rank.

• Emperor

• millet

• Mandate of Heaven

• aristocracy

oracle bones

• pieces of turtle bone or shell used to predict future events by supernatural powers.

• massive collection of clay sculptures representing an army of Qin Shi Huang, the first Chinese Emperor.

• contemporary version of Confucianism.

• series of walls made by stone and brick along the northern borders of China.

millet

• cereal crop farmers relied on for food.

• a process used in ancient times to create bronze sculptures.

• the idea that humans were evil by nature and it was necessary to use harsh laws and punishments.

• collection of ideas and sayings by Confucius.

massive collection of clay sculptures representing an army of Qin Shi Huang, the first Chinese Emperor.

• Terracotta Army

• Emperor

• Taotie mask

• Mandate of Heaven