Ancient China Vocabulary

Originally, a Chinese practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to treat disease or relieve pain...

• acupuncture

• chiropractic

• reflexology

• aromatherapy

A member of an upper class of society...

• warlord

• ancestor

• aristocrat

• bureaucrat

A network of trade routes stretching from western China to the Mediterranean region.

• Royal Road

• Flower Road

• Silk Road

• East Asia Road

A symbol in a writing system based on pictures

• Cuneiform

• pictograph

• filial piety

• Sanskrit

A Chinese philosophy concerned with obtaining long life and living in harmony with nature...

• Confucianism

• Daoism

• Legalism

• Mandate of Heaven

What was built to help protect China from invasions from the north?

• Waterwheels

• Silk Road

• Great Wall of China

• Terraces

The administrative service of a government...

• currency

• civil service

• censor

• Confucianism

Having title or possession by reason of birth...

• hereditary

• natural right

• Mandate of Heaven

• filial piety

Chinese system of beliefs which describes the way a person must rule...

• Confucianism

• acupuncture

• Dao

• filial piety

The responsibility of children to respect, obey, and care for their parents...

• Mandate of Heaven

• filial piety

• Legalism

• Dao