Ancient China

ancestor worship

• a power or law believed to be granted by the heavens

• honoring of ancestors through rituals, such as offering food and wine to the spirits of the dead

• a piece of bone or shell heated and cracked by holy men to seek advice from a king’s ancestors

• a person who works for a government

oracle bone

• a piece of bone or shell heated and cracked by holy men to seek advice from a king’s ancestors

• honoring of ancestors through rituals, such as offering food and wine to the spirits of the dead

• the spreading of cultural traits, such as goods and ideas, from one culture to another, or within one culture

• the first emperor to rule a united China, from 221 to 210 B.C.E.

civil servant

• honoring of ancestors through rituals, such as offering food and wine to the spirits of the dead

• a piece of bone or shell heated and cracked by holy men to seek advice from a king’s ancestors

• a person who works for a government

• a group of people traveling together

Mandate of Heaven

• honoring of ancestors through rituals, such as offering food and wine to the spirits of the dead

• a person who works for the government

• a group of people traveling together

• a power or law believed to be granted by the heavens

Qin Shi Huangdi

• a group of people traveling together

• the first emperor to rule a united China, from 221 to 210 BCE

• the spreading of cultural traits

• a piece of bone or shell heated and cracked by holy men to seek advice from a king's ancestors

caravans

• honoring of ancestors through rituals, such as offering food and wine to the spirits of the dead

• the first emperor to rule a united China, from 221 to 210 BCE

• a group of people traveling together

• a person who works for the government

cultural diffusion

• the spreading of cultural traits, such as goods and ideas from one culture to another, or within one culture

• a person who works for a government

• a piece of bone or shell heated and cracked by holy men to seek advice from a king's ancestors

• the first emperor to rule a united China

North China Plain

• a region in the Huang He River valley, were Chinese civilization began

• light, fertile soil that yields bountiful grain crops

• a stream or river that feeds into a larger stream, river, or lake

• a network of trade routes

loess

• a network of trade routes that stretched for more than four thousand miles across Asia

• location where ruins were found from the Shang dynasty, China's first civilization

• a stream or river that feeds into a larger stream, river, or lake

• light, fertile soil that yields bountful grain crops

feudalism

• location where ruins were found from the Shang dynasty, China's first civilization

• a network of trade routes that stretched for more than four thousand miles across Asia

• a system of government based on landowners and tenants

• a region in Huang He River valley, where Chinese civilization began