Unit Four F&C

The historical period in which China was ruled by emperors from 221 BCE until the early 20th century.

• Imperial China

• Bureaucracy

• Merit System

• Scholar-Official

System of many government officials who carry out government rules and regulations.

• Bureaucracy

• Porcelain

• Confucianism

• Legalism

Highly educated person who passed civil service examinations and worked in the government.

• Scholar-Official

• Khan

• Money Economy

• Nomad

System in which people are hired and promoted based on talent and skills, rather than wealth or social status.

• Merit System

• Urbanization

• Daoism

• Mongols

Movement of people from rural to urban areas.

• Urbanization

• Mongols

• Porcelain

• Khan

Economic system in which people use currency rather than bartering to buy and sell goods.

• Money Economy

• Bureaucracy

• Legalism

• Tribute

A hard white pottery of extremely fine quality.

• Porcelain

• Steppe

• Daoism

• Block Printing

Person who moves from place to place without a permanent home.

• Nomad

• Mongols

• Khan

• Confucianism

Nomads who came from the steppes northwest of China.

• Mongols

• Confucianism

• Daoism

• Block Printing

Vast area of grasslands.

• Steppe

• Despot

• Porcelain

• Tribute