Early China Vocabulary

A Chinese philosophy often used by the Qin rulers.

• pictographs

• daoism

• Legalism

• Confucianism

united China, created one type of currency, ordered the building of roads and buildings, and connected the Chang Jiang to central China by canal.

• Liu Bang

• Qin Shihuangdi

• Wu Wang

• Dao

his followers rebelled against the Shang dynasty and created the Zhou dynasty.

• Wu Wang

• Liu Bang

• Dao

• Qin Shihuangdi

officials who are responsible for different areas of government served under the king

• Mandate of Heaven

• bureaucracy

• Filial piety

• Senate

a heavenly law that gave Zhou kings the power to rule is called the Mandate of Heaven

• True

• False

characters that stand for objects.   

• Filial piety

• Ideographs

• pictographs

• Xia

the pattern of the rise and fall of dynasties in ancient and early China

• dynastic cycle

• barter

• Zhou

• Daoism

a series of rulers from the same family

• dynasty

• bureaucracy

• Yangtze River

• Huang He

the belief that children owe their parents and ancestors respect

• filial piety

• caravan

• Warring States

• Legalism

an animal bone used to consult with the many gods worshiped by the Shang people

• oracle bone

• Confucianism

• Silk Roads

• Shang