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| 7484200625 | Book of Changes | A manual instructing diviners in the art of foretelling the future that exercised deep influence in everyday ancient Chinese life. |  | 0 |
| 7484203091 | Book of Songs | The oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, dating from the 11th to the 7th centuries b.c.e. It contained a collection of verses on themes both light and serious; overall, it reflected the conditions of the early Zhou dynasty through political implications. | 1 | |
| 7484203092 | Chu | Autonomous state in the central Yangzi region of China during the Zhou dynasty (1122-256 b.c.e.). | 2 | |
| 7484203627 | Ideograms | A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it, e.g., numerals and Chinese characters. |  | 3 |
| 7484203866 | Mandate of Heaven | Chinese belief that the emperors ruled through the mandate, or approval, of heaven contingent on their ability to look after the welfare of the population. | 4 | |
| 7484203867 | Oracle bones | Chinese Shang dynasty (1766-1122 b.c.e.) means of foretelling the future. | 5 | |
| 7484204157 | Period of the Warring States | Last centuries of the Zhou dynasty (403-221 b.c.e.) when wars divided the region until the establishment of the Qin dynasty ended the disunity. | 6 | |
| 7484204158 | Pictographs | A conventional or stylized representation of an object. | 7 | |
| 7484204534 | Shang dynasty | Arising in the southern and eastern regions of what was the Xia realm, between the years 1766 to 1122 B.C.E, the Shang dynasty allowed basic features of early Chinese writing to come into much clearer focus through written records and archaeological discoveries. Some highlights of this specific area include the relocation of the capital 6 times and the utilization of both bronze and iron metallurgy to back up strong military forces. | 8 | |
| 7484204535 | Steppe nomads | This term refers to nomadic peoples who built pastoral societies in the grassy steppe lands of Central Asia, and were encountered by Chinese cultivators as they expanded both north and west. Because of the arid land environment, these specific peoples turned to domestication of animals and herding to further explore the steppes. |  | 9 |
| 7484204536 | Tian | Chinese term for heaven. | 10 | |
| 7484204890 | Veneration of Ancestors | This Chinese practice lead to a strong ethic of family solidarity. Within these rituals, Chinese families diligently tended the graves and memories of departed ancestors, as they believed ancestors' spirits had the power to support and protect the surviving families through proper respect and ministry. | 11 | |
| 7484204891 | Xia dynasty | An early Chinese dynasty (2200-1766 B.C.E.). that might have been one of the first efforts to organize large, scale public life in China. The legendary founder of this dynasty, sage king Yu, organized effective flood control projects and encouraged the founding of both cities and metallurgy development. | 12 | |
| 7484205083 | Yangzi River | A river that supported an even more intensive agriculture than what was possible in the Yellow River Basin. This body of water carries enormous volumes of water from up in the Qinghai mountains of Tibet to its mouth near the modern Chinese cities of Nanjing and Shanghai. The most, subtropical climates called for the cultivation of rice, and the tameness of the river did not bring devastating floods like those of the Yellow River. | 13 | |
| 7484205084 | Yellow River | A boisterous and unpredictable river that rises in the mountains bordering the high plateau of Tibet, coursing almost 4,700 kilometers (2,920 miles) before emptying into the Yellow Sea. It takes its name from the vast quantities of light-colored loess soil that it picks up along its route. | 14 | |
| 7484205085 | Yin | One of the six Shang dynasty (1766-1122 b.c.e.) capitals near the modern city of Anyang. Within the rise of the Zhou dynasty, between 1122 B.C.E.-256 B.C.E , this specific capital was seized, and its king beheaded. | 15 | |
| 7484205578 | Zhou dynasty | Chinese dynasty (1122-256 b.c.e.) that was the foundation of Chinese thought: Confucianism, Daoism, and Zhou Classics. Being a large state, this dynasty relied on decentralized administrations composed of entrusted power, authority, and responsibility to subordinates I'm exchange for loyalty and allegiance. This dynasty came to an end after subordinates gradually established their own forms of power and exercised authority as long-established governors. | 16 |
