Ancient China

Because these people kept attacking cities in the north, the Chinese built the Great Wall of China

• Indians

• Koreans

• Mongols

• Muslims

A major trade route that ran through China

• Huang He

• Silk Road

• China's Sorrow

• Taklamakan

A very cold desert in China

• Taklamakan

• Huang He

• Himalaya

• Gobi

Belief a strong leader and legal system are needed to create social order; punishment is harsh and extreme for breaking law

• Mandate of Heaven

• legalism

• civil service

• constitution

Belief that rulers are given the right to rule by Heaven

• legalism

• Mandate of Heaven

• heavenly being

• oligarchy

A long wall running east to west along the Chinese northern border

• Great Wall of China

• Shi Huangdi wall

• Silk Road

• Qin Dynasty

A system of government which employees people selected for their ability

• mandate of heaven

• civil service

• exemption

• acupuncture

A therapy using needles to cure sickness and pain

• Pharmaceuticals

• Herbal medicine

• Acupuncture

• Distinctive

A system of beliefs about the world and how we live

• philosophy

• psychology

• religion

• intelligence

A belief system based on the ideas of the thinker Confucius

• Daoism

• Hinduism

• Confucianism

• Buddhism