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| 218313915 | Book of Changes | Book that talks about how everything is made of yin and yang | 0 | |
| 218313916 | Book of History | A book detailing the history of the Zhou dynasty. | 1 | |
| 218313917 | Book of Rites | Zhou book explaining the rules of etiquette and rituals required of aristocrats in China under the Zhou dynasty. | 2 | |
| 218313918 | Book of Songs | The Oldest of the Five Classics, preserves 305 of the earliest Chinese poems. Poems deal with political themes, ritual, and romance. | 3 | |
| 218313919 | bronze | ... | 4 | |
| 218313920 | Chang Jiang | The longest river in Asia, flowing about 3,400 miles from central China to the Yellow Sea, also known as the Yangzi River. | 5 | |
| 218313921 | chariots | Are two-wheeled carts that are pulled by horses; some are used in battles or in races. | 6 | |
| 218313922 | Confucius | Chinese philosopher, administrator, and moralist. His social and moral teachings, collected in the Analects , tried to replace former religious observances. | 7 | |
| 218313923 | feudal system | System of managing land and its people on a manor. | 8 | |
| 218313924 | flood control | Use of levees, walls, reservoirs, floodways, and other means to protect land from water overflow. | 9 | |
| 218313925 | horses | Animals used for transportation. | 10 | |
| 218313926 | Huang He | Stretches across China for roughly 2,900 miles also known as the Yellow River provides yellow silt called loess, a major river of Asia in northern China. | 11 | |
| 218313927 | Ideographs | Pictographic characters grouped together to create new concepts; typical of Chinese writing. | 12 | |
| 218313928 | Iron | home appliance consisting of a flat metal base that is heated and used to smooth cloth | 13 | |
| 218313929 | Mandate of Heaven | A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source. | 14 | |
| 218313930 | Shang | The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship, divination by means of oracle bones, and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of this culture. | 15 | |
| 218313931 | Shun | To avoid deliberately; to keep away from. | 16 | |
| 218313932 | trade | Exchange or give (something) in exchange for something in return. | 17 | |
| 218313933 | veneration of ancestors | Chinese had great respect for their ancestors. Offered sacrifices at graves. Head of family in charge of rites to honor spirits. Buried material goods with their dead. | 18 | |
| 218313934 | Warring States period | The period from 5th century BC to the unification of China by the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC when regional warlords battled amongst eachother and there was no ruler. | 19 | |
| 218313935 | writing | Letters or symbols written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language. | 20 | |
| 218313936 | Xia | A legendary Chinese dynasty that was not believed to exist until relatively recently. Walled towns ruled by area-specific kings assembled armies, built cities, and worked bronze. Created pictograms which would evolve in to the first Chinese script. | 21 | |
| 218313937 | Yangshao | First of two - Early Neolithic Society based on farming near the Yellow River. 5000 - 3000 BCE. | 22 | |
| 218313938 | Yao | To want to; to have a desire for. | 23 | |
| 218313939 | Yu | ... | 24 | |
| 218313940 | Zhou | the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC | 25 |
