China Key Terms

A military commander exercising civil power by force!

• censor

• warlord

• tenant farmer

• Aristocrat

A member of the upper class of society.

• aristocrat

• Dao

• censor

• bureaucracy

A person that someone is descended from.

• aristocrat

• filial piety

• Legalism

• ancestor

A symbol in a writing system that represents a thing or idea.

• ideograph

• pictograph

• Dao

• hereditary

A symbol in a writing system based on pictures.

• ideograph

• pictograph

• Tao

• lithograph

A group of non-elected government officials.

• aristocrats

• bureaucracy

• Legalism

• Daoism

The belief that the Chinese King's right to rule came from the gods.

• Daoism

• filial piety

• Mandate of Heaven

• Confucianism

Chinese system of beliefs which describes the way a king must rule. Also known as "the way".

• Mandate of Heaven

• Dao

• Confucianism

• legalism

A system of beliefs based on the teachings of Confucius.

• Daoism

• Confucianism

• Legalism

• Mandate of Heaven

A Chinese philosophy that stressed the importance of laws.

• Daoism

• Legalism

• Confucianism

• censorism