Early China Vocabulary

Zhou rulers claimed that the ____________ gave them the right to rule China

• social class

• Mandate of Heaven

• warlord

• ancestors

Every year, a(n) _______ had to give part of his crops to the lord who owned the land he farmed.

• filial piety

• bureaucracy

• aristocrat

• tenant farmer

The Zhou king ruled with the help of a(n) _______, selected officials who carry out different government jobs.

• bureaucracy

• Dao

• ideograph

• pictograph

To this day many Chinese doctors continue to use ________ to help their patients

• acupuncture

• currency

• censor

• Legalism

A clerk could lose his job if the ________ found him sleeping at his desk

• censor

• aristocrat

• ancestor

• civil service

The Chinese philosophy of _______ stressed the importance of laws.

• Daoism

• Legalism

• Confucianism

• Mandate of Heaven

You have to take a difficult test to get into the_________.

• filial piety

• bureaucracy

• social class

• civil service

Each army was led by a different _________ .

• aristocrat

• warlord

• ancestor

• Dao

Zhou rulers were expected to rule in the proper "Way," which was known as the _______ .

• filial piety

• civil service

• currency

• Dao

It was easier for merchants to buy and sell goods when everyone used the same _________ .

• Mandate of Heaven

• currency

• warlord

• filial piety