Ancient China Vocabulary

A military commander who uses force to control an area.

• Bureaucracy

• Warlord

• Dao

• Aristocrat

A system of beliefs based on the teachings of Confucius.

• Ideography

• Filial Piety

• Daoism

• Confuscianism

A person that someone is descended from.

• Hereditary

• Ancestor

• Confucianism

• Pictograph

A symbol in a writing system based on pictures.

• Pictograph

• Warlord

• Legalism

• Ancestor

A member of an upper class society.

• Aristocrat

• Dao

• Bureaucracy

• Filial piety

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

• Filial Piety

• Hereditary

• Pictograph

• Legalism

A group of non-elected government officials.

• Aristocrat

• Ideograph

• Daoism

• Bureaucracy

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

• Confucianism

• Daoism

• Warlord

• Ancestor

Having title or possession by reason of birth.

• Ancestor

• Legalism

• Hereditary

• Warlord

A Chinese philosophy that stressed the importance of laws.

• Legalism

• Pictograph

• Confucianism

• Hereditary