SS chapter 8 Vocabulary

Religious practice of honoring the spirits of the dead

• Chaos

• Ancestor Worship

• Dike

• Filial Piety

Total disorder and confusion

• Chaos

• Loess

• Mandate of Heaven

• Warlord

Wall to hold back water

• Ancestor Woship

• Chaos

• Dike

• Daoism

A dust like material that can form soil

• Warning States period

• Warlord

• Pictograph

• Loess

In Ancient China, the presumed right to rule given to a dynasty by heaven, the highest form of nature

• Mandate of Heaven

• Warlord

• Pictograph

• Philosophy

An animal bone or shell carved with written characters that was used to predict the future in Ancient China

• Philosophy

• Daoism

• Oracle Bones

• Dike

General study of knowledge and the world; Greek for “love of wisdom”

• Philosophy

• Pictograph

• Loess

• Confucianism

A picture that represents a word or idea

• Filial Piety

• Dike

• Chaos

• Pictograph

A period from about 481 B.C. to 221 B.C. of great conflict in Ancient China

• Warring States Period

• Warlord

• Oracle Bones

• Ancestor Worship

A military leader

• Loess

• Dike

• Daoism

• Warlord