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| 7596853808 | Xian | Along with Loyang, capital of the Zhou dynasty | 0 | |
| 7596853809 | Shi Huangdi | Founder of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE | 1 | |
| 7596853810 | Ideographic writing | Pictographic characters grouped together to create new concepts; typical of Chinese writing | 2 | |
| 7596853811 | Scholar-gentry | Chinese class created by the marital linkage of the local land-holding aristocracy with the office-holding shi; superseded shi as governors of China | 3 | |
| 7596853812 | Shi | Probably originally priests; transformed into corps of professional bureaucrats because of knowledge of writing during Zhou dynasty | 4 | |
| 7596853813 | Nuclear families | Consisted of husband and wife, their children, and perhaps a grandmother or orphaned cousin; typical of Chinese peasantry | 5 | |
| 7596853814 | Oracles | Shamans or priest in Chinese society who foretold the future through interpretations of animal bones cracked by heat; inscriptions on bones led to Chinese writing | 6 | |
| 7596853815 | Han dynasty | Chinese dynasty that succeeded the Qin in 202 BCE; ruled for the next 400 years | 7 | |
| 7596853816 | Shang | First Chinese dynasty for which archeological evidence exists; capital located in Ordos bend | 8 | |
| 7596853817 | Eunuchs | Castrated males used within the households of Chinese emperors, usually to guard the emperor's concubine; became political counterbalance to powerful marital relatives during later Han | 9 | |
| 7596853818 | Laozi | AKA Lao Tsu; major Chinese philosopher; recommended retreat from society into nature; individual should seek to become attuned with Dao | 10 | |
| 7596853819 | Patrilineal | Family descent and inheritance traced through the male line | 11 | |
| 7596853820 | Qin dynasty | Established in 221 BCE at the end of the Warring States period following the decline of the Zhou dynasty; fell in 207 BCE | 12 | |
| 7596853821 | Feudalism | The social organization crated by exchanging grants of land of fiefs in return for formal oaths of allegiance and promises of loyal service; typically of Zhou dynasty and European Middle Ages; greater lords provided protection and aid to lesser lords in return for military service | 13 | |
| 7596853822 | Secret societies | Chinese peasant organizations; provided financial support in hard times and physical protection in case of disputes with local aristocracy | 14 | |
| 7596853823 | Wu | First of the Zhou to be recognized as king, 1122 BCE | 15 | |
| 7596853824 | Ordos bulge | Located on Huanghe River; region of fertile soil; site of Yangshao and Longshan cultures | 16 | |
| 7596853825 | Loess | Fine grained soil deposited in Ordos region in China bent by winds from central Asia; created fertile soil for sedentary agriculture communities | 17 | |
| 7596853826 | Sunzi | A 4th century BCE advisor to Chinese monarch, who wrote the treatise The Art of War | 18 | |
| 7596853827 | Mandate of Heaven | The divine source for political legitimacy of Chinese rulers; established by Zhou to justify overthrow of Shang | 19 | |
| 7596853828 | Wang Mang | Member of one of the powerful families related to the Han emperors through marriage; temporarily overthrew the Han between 9 and 23 CE | 20 | |
| 7596853829 | Yu | A possible mythical Chinese ruler revered for the construction of an effective system of flood control along the Huanghe River valley; founder of the Xia kingdom | 21 | |
| 7596853830 | Great Wall | Chinese defensive fortification intended to keep out the nomadic invaders from the north; initiated during Qin dynasty and reign of Shi Huangdi | 22 | |
| 7596853831 | Hsiung-nu | AKA the Huns; horse nomads responsible for the disruption of Chinese, Gupta, and Roman civilizations | 23 | |
| 7596853832 | Daoism | Philosophy associated with Laozi; stressed need for alignment with Dao or cosmic force | 24 | |
| 7596853833 | Mencius | AKA Meng Ko; follower of Confucius; stressed consent of the common people | 25 | |
| 7596853834 | Extended families | Consisted of several generations, including the family patriarch's sons and grandsons with their wives and children; typical of Shang China elites | 26 | |
| 7596853835 | Zhou | Originally a vassal family of Shang China; possibly Turkic in origin; overthrew Shang and established second historical Chinese dynasty | 27 | |
| 7596853836 | Vassal retainers | Members of former ruling families granted control over the peasant and artisan populations of areas throughout Shang kingdom; indirectly exploited wealth of their territories | 28 | |
| 7596853837 | Forbidden city | Imperial precinct within the capital cities of China; only imperial family, advisors, and household were permitted to enter | 29 | |
| 7596853838 | Confucius | AKA Kung Fuzi; major Chinese philosopher; born in 6th century BCE; author of Analects; philosophy based on need for restoration of order through advice of superior men to be found among the shi | 30 | |
| 7596853839 | Loyang | Along with Xian, capital of the Zhou dynasty | 31 | |
| 7596853840 | Liu Bang | Founder of the Han dynasty in 202 BCE | 32 | |
| 7596853841 | Xia | China's first, possibly mythical, kingdom; no archeological sites have been connected to it; ruled by Yu | 33 | |
| 7596853842 | Tian | Heaven; an abstract conception in early Chinese religion; possibly the combined spirits of all male ancestors; first appeared during Zhou dynasty | 34 | |
| 7596853843 | Yellow River | AKA the Huanghe; site of development of sedentary agriculture in China | 35 |
