Ancient China Vocabulary Lessons 1-3

Skilled worker who made things like silk cloth

• artisan

• farmer

• warlord

• soldier

a family member who is no longer living

• artisan

• merchant

• ancestor

• farmer

using needles in the skin to remove pain

• tenant farmer

• acupuncture

• aristocracy

• merchant

duty to others is the central idea of this philosophy

• hereditary

• Legalism

• Daoism

• Confucianism

writing symbol used for ideas

• ideographs

• islandgraphs

• idiotgraphs

• identographs

harsh laws are important to this philosophy

• confucianism

• daoism

• legalism

• hammurabi's code

used the mandate of heaven to overthrow the shang dynasty

• Qin

• Han

• Zhou

• Shang

a poor farmer who works on land that is owned by someone else

• merchant

• censor

• tenant

• currency

something used as money

• bureaucracy

• civil service

• dao

• currency

born into leadership or wealth

• artisan

• aristocracy

• ancestor

• hereditary