Ancient China Vocab

a desert area with very dry grasslands and no trees

• feudalism

• dynasty

• steppe

• Daoism

a form of government that gave all of the power to one leader

• feudalism

• seismograph

• filial piety

• legalism

a class system where the king provided lands to lords for military support, and peasants worked the land in exchange for protection

• monarchy

• feudalism

• Shi Huangdi

• mandate of heaven

rule by a royal family

• monarchy

• dynasty

• filial piety

• loess

a trade route covering 4,000 miles from the Mediterranean Sea through Asia

• Civil Service

• Philosophy

• Silk Road

• Confucianism

a belief system that teaches about the respect and loyalty in five relationships to bring goodness to society

• Philosophy

• Confucianism

• feudalism

• dynasty

named himself “First Emperor of China”

• Daoism

• Steppe

• Shi Huangdi

• Civil Service

instrument that measures details of an earthquake

• seismograph

• philosophy

• mandate of heaven

• calligraphy

teaches that one should live simply and in harmony with nature

• loess

• filial piety

• Confucianism

• Daoism

a system of ideas named after the Greek word meaning “love of wisdom”

• Confucianism

• Daoism

• philosophy

• calligraphy