Chapter 10: Early Chinese

To become known

• Mandate of Heaven

• emerge

• Confucianism

• Censor

a canal; a narrow body of water between two land masses

• tenant farmer

• legalism

• ideograph

• channel

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

• hereditary

• warlord

• tenant farmer

• legalism

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

• aristocrat

• Daoism

• acupuncture

• currency

a person that someone is descended from

• Civil Service

• Mandate of Heaven

• pictograph

• ancestor

a symbol in a writing system based on pictures

• warlord

• Confucianism

• pictograph

• philosophy

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

• pictograph

• ideograph

• unify

• censor

a group of non-elected government officials

• aristocrat

• bureaucracy

• Daoism

• philosophy

having title or possession by reason of birth

• filial piety

• hereditary

• currency

• acupuncture

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

• Mandate of Heaven

• warlord

• Daoism

• Civil Service