Ancient China Vocabulary Review

The right to rule - _____________

• Civil Service

• Mandate of Heaven

• Filial Piety

• Loess

A tortoise shell or the scapula of an ox that was written on, thrown into a fire, and then was used to predict the future based on the way it cracked - ________________

• Analects

• Loess

• Papyrus

• Oracle Bones

A large trade route that connected China with other civilizations to the South and West - ________________________

• The Great Wall of China

• The Analects

• The Silk Road

• The Eightfold Path

A device used by geologists that detects vibrations in the earth caused by earthquakes - __________________________

• Seismometer

• Vibrometer

• Pictograph

• Logograph

Placing a high value on education and respecting your elders are both key aspects of this philosophy - ______________________

• Feudalism

• Daoism

• Legalism

• Confucianism

Devotion to your parents - _______________________

• Daoism

• Civil Service

• Taoism

• Filial Piety

Complete confusion and disorder - _______________________

• Piety

• Chaos

• Loess

• Harmony

A system government jobs that exists for employees that have specific skill sets and particular knowledge in a certain area - ______________________

• Civil Right

• Civil Responsibility

• Civil Mandate

• Civil Service

This philosophy believed in harsh punishments and strict laws - ____________________________

• Daoism

• Tasoism

• Confucianism

• Legalism

The book written by Confucius that contained all of his teachings - ______________________

• The Analects

• The Vedas

• The Brahman

• The Oracle Bones