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| 218222561 | Book of Changes | book that talks about how everything is made of yin and yang | 0 | |
| 218222562 | Book of History | A book detailing the history of the Zhou dynasty. | 1 | |
| 218222563 | Book of Rites | Zhou book explaining the rules of etiquette and rituals required of aristocrats in China under the Zhou dynasty. | 2 | |
| 218222564 | 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 | |
| 218222565 | bronze | ... | 4 | |
| 218222566 | 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 | |
| 218222567 | chariots | are two-wheeled carts that are pulled by horses; some are used in battles or in races | 6 | |
| 218222568 | Confucius | Chinese philosopher, administrator, and moralist. His social and moral teachings, collected in the Analects , tried to replace former religious observances | 7 | |
| 218222569 | feudal system | A system of trading loyalties for protection | 8 | |
| 218222570 | flood control | the technique or practice of preventing or controlling floods with dams, artificial channels, etc | 9 | |
| 218222571 | horses | Animal introduced by Europeans that transformed the Indian way of life on the Great Plains | 10 | |
| 218222572 | Huang He | stretches across China for roughly 2,900 miles also known as the Yellow River ... provides yellow silt called loess | 11 | |
| 218222573 | ideographs | pictographic characters grouped together to create new concepts; typical of Chinese writing | 12 | |
| 218222574 | iron | ... | 13 | |
| 218222575 | 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 | |
| 218222576 | 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 Shang culture. | 15 | |
| 218222577 | Shun | ... | 16 | |
| 218222578 | trade | ... | 17 | |
| 218222579 | veneration of ancestors | respect for elders within Chinese society. Chinese believed that their ancestors would harm them if they were not respected | 18 | |
| 218222580 | 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 | |
| 218222581 | writing | ... | 20 | |
| 218222582 | 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 | |
| 218222583 | Yangshao | Ancient people in China who were large until 2700 BCE. Their main farming consisted of millet, wheat, along with the domestication of pigs, dogs, etc. | 22 | |
| 218222584 | Yao | One of the legendary Three Sages taught the people about art and religious rituals. When he grew old, he handed power, not to his unworthy son, but to a poor but virtuous peasant. | 23 | |
| 218222585 | Yu | the founder of the legendary Xia dynasty who tamed the water of the yellow river by building canals, working for 13 years nonstop, even passing by his home 3 times and never visiting. Yu was widely respected for his devotion to duty | 24 | |
| 218222586 | Zhou | The people and dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. Remembered as prosperous era in Chinese History. | 25 |
