Chapter 5 Vocab - Ancient China

Vocab: a dustlike material that can form soil.

• Loess

• Dike

• Logograph

• Pictograph

Vocab: wall to hold back water

• Dike

• Loess

• Pictograph

• Logograph

Vocab: animal bone or shell carved with written characters that was used to predict the future in ancient China

• Oracle Bone

• Mandate of Heaven

• Filial Piety

• Civil Service

Vocab: a picture that represents a word or idea

• Pictograph

• Logograph

• Philosophy

• Cuisine

Vocab: a symbol that represents a word or group of words

• Logograph

• Pictograph

• Loess

• Filial Piety

Vocab: in ancient China, the presumed right to rule given to a dynasty by heaven, the highest force of nature

• Mandate of Heaven

• Oracle Bone

• Filial Piety

• Civil Service

Vocab: military ruler

• Warlord

• Chaos

• Cuisine

• Envoy

Vocab: total disorder and confusion

• Chaos

• Philosophy

• Censor

• Standardize

Vocab: general study of knowledge and the world; Greek for "love of wisdom"

• Philosophy

• Filial Piety

• Civil Service

• Legalism

Vocab: devotion of children to their parents

• Filial Piety

• Civil Service

• Envoy

• Censor