China Vocabulary

Gobi Dessert

• a harsh desert that covers much of Northern China

• a harsh desert that covers much of Southern China

A group of rulers from the same family

• patriarch

• dynamic

• dynasty

• matriarch

China's earliest written records that shared predictions for the future

• ominous bones

• papyrus

• rosetta stone

• oracle bones

a dust-like material that forms soil and makes the Huang He River Yellow

• Loess

• Silt

• Pollen

Chinese River that often floods: also known as the Yellow River

• Huang He River

• Nile River

• Indus River

• China RIver

a set of beliefs about how to live

• mythology

• sociology

• philosophy

• biology

respect for one's parents and elders

• Finale

• Filial Piety

• Morals

• Piety Pi

a social system in which lords governed land farmed by peasants

• Confuciansim

• Feudalism

• Society

• Daoism

A philosophy that emphasizes living in harmony with the Dao

• Mandate of Heaven

• Feudalism

• Daoism

• Confucianism

Laozi

• founder of Daoism

• Teachings and ideas of Confucius

• the right to rule