Ancient China Lesson 1 vocab

The belief that the Chinese king’s right to rule came from the gods.

• bureaucracy

• Mandate of Heaven

• heredity

• aristocrat

• pictograph

Having title or possession by reason of birth

• heredity

• aristocrat

• bureaucracy

• warlord

A group of officials who are responsible for many areas of government.

• warlord

• aristocrat

• canal

• bureaucracy

A symbol that stands for an object.

• ideograph

• emerge

• pictograph

• canal

A symbol that joins two or more pictographs to represent an idea.

• pictograph

• Mandate of Heaven

• emerge

• ideograph

A person that someone is descended from

• warlord

• ancestor

• bureaucracy

• heredity

A member of an upper class of society, usually made up of hereditary nobility

• Mandate of Heaven

• heredity

• aristocrat

• warlord

A military commander exercising civil power by force, usually in a limited area

• aristocrat

• ideograph

• warlord

• canal

To become known

• heredity

• emerge

• canal

• pictograph

A narrow body of water between two land masses

• emerge

• pictograph

• heredity

• channel