Ancient China

Exchanging items for other goods

• peasants

• bartered

• isolated

• silk

A series of international trade routes

• dynasty

• Mandate of Heaven

• Silk Roads

• Legalism

beautiful textiles, or cloth

• terra cotta

• silk

• filial piety

• bartered

cut off from the rest of the world

• peasants

• Confucianism

• oracle bones

• isolated

is a line of rulers from the same family

• dynasty

• emperor

• dynastic cycle

• peasants

a pattern of rise and fall of dynasties in China

• filial piety

• oracle bones

• dynastic cycle

• Daoism

respect children owe to their parents and ancestors

• filial piety

• silk

• isolated

• bartered

poor farmers

• emperor

• Confucianism

• terra cotta

• peasants

baked clay warriors were buried beside a tomb to protect Shi Huangdi

• silk

• terra cotta

• oracle bones

• dynasty

is the ruler of an empire

• emperor

• Daoism

• Confucianism

• peasants