201406038 | Loess | A fine light silt deposited by wind and water. It composites the fertile soil of the yellow river valley. | 0 | |
201406039 | Shang | The dominate people in the earliest chinese dynasty in which we have written records | 1 | |
201406040 | Divination | Techniques used to ascertain the future or the will of the gods by interpreting natural Phenomena. | 2 | |
201406041 | Zhou | The people and Dynasty that took over the dominate northern china from the Shang and created the mandate of heaven to justify thier rule | 3 | |
201406042 | Mandate of heaven | The chinese religous and political ideology developed by the Zhou in which the prerogative of heaven the chief deity, to grant power to the ruler of china and to take away that power if, the ruler failed to conduct himself justly and the best intrest of his subjects. | 4 | |
201406043 | Legalism | In china, the political philosophy that emphasized the unruliness of human nature and justified state coercion and control | 5 | |
201406044 | Conficus | Western name for the chinese philosopher named Kongz. His doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on subsequent chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for govenment officials | 6 | |
201406045 | Llama | A hoofed animal indigenous to the Andes mountains in south America.It was the only domesticated beast of burden in the americas before the arrival of the europeans. It provided meat and wool. | 7 | |
201406046 | Chavin | The first major urban civilization in south america. Its capital, Chavin de huantar was located high in the andes mountains of Peru. Chavin became politacally and economically dominate in a densly populated region. | 8 | |
201406047 | Olmec | The first mesoamerican civilization. The olmec people of central mexico created a vibrant civilizationthat included intensive agriculture wide ranging trade and monumental construction. | 9 | |
201406048 | Meroe | Capital of a flourishing kingdom in southern nubia from the 4th century b.c. In this period nubian culture shows more independence from egypt and the influence of sub-saharran afica | 10 | |
201406049 | Kush | An egyptian name for Nubia the region alongside the nile river south of egypt where an indigenous kingdom with its own distinctive institutions and cultural traditions | 11 | |
201406050 | Yin/Yang | In chinese belief , complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world.Yin is associated with feminine and passive qualities, Yang with masculine, ligh, and active qualities | 12 | |
201406051 | Daoism | Chinese school of thought, originating in the warring states period . daoism offered an alternative to the confucian emphsis on hieracy and duty. they acept the world as they find it, avoid futile stuggle and conflict | 13 |
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