Chapter 8 History Review - Vocabulary

What is loess? *i

• a plant in which the Chinese used to make paper

• a fine, dust-like material that can form soil

• a medicinal plant found in the steppes of the Tibetan Plateau

• a fabric that is used to make Zhou leader gowns and dresess

What is a dike? *i

• walls to hold back water

• a trench dug on the beds of rivers to stop flooding

• a special shovel used for uprooting tall plants

• a series of controlled gates which accumulated water

What is an oracle bone? *i

• a slab of stone which its shape would tell the furture

• a religious mineral found only in China used in rituals

• a rock used for funeral ceremonies to connect the dead with the spirits

• a animal bone or rock that when heated immensely, the cracks would tell the future

What is a pictograph? *i

• a picture that represents a word or idea

• a religious symbol meaning eternal life.

• a tool which tells the seasons

• a Chinese character that has no straight lines in it

Define a Mandate of Heaven. *ii

• a truce kept between earth and heaven that promises if the rulers give to the heavens, the heavens will give to the rulers

• a very deep promise

• the right to rule a dynasty has based on signs given by heaven on how the leaders have acted and run the dynasty

• a Daoist way of connecting with heaven, like meditation

What is a warlord? *ii

• a person who rebels against the kingdom and commits crimes which hurt a dynastic economy

• rulers who often control entire continents at times

• military rulers of small states and territories

• a person who controls a group of spirits

Define chaos. *ii

• military peactime

• total disorder and confusion

• a period of anarchy

• a special agreement made between heaven and a dynasty to not attack other dynasties or territories

What was the Warring States Period? *ii

• a time where inner rebellions within the Zhou dynasty rose up against the government

• a period which occurred after the weakening of the Zhou dynasty in which the nobles fought for land

• a time of ancient China where there were no rules, just orderly chaos

• a period of China where the civilians fought against the brutal beetle infestations

What is a philosophy? *iii

• a rule in the greater book of the Thē Jöng, stating that ones connection with heaven and earth is ones opportunity

• a way of thinking of the world in a Daoist way

• a way of thinking of the world in a Confuciust way

• a set of beliefs about the world and how to live

What is ancestor worship? *iii

• having rituals to honor your spiritual ancestors (spiritual as in deceased)

• worshiping your eldest relatives through a ceremony every year on his or hers birthday

• receiving spiritual advice from deceased relatives

• worshipping the natural spirits for good luck every year