Chapter 4 Vocab (China) Flashcards
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| 533965842 | Loess | Fertile yellow soil | |
| 533965843 | Dikes | Earthen walls built along a river to protect from floods | |
| 533965844 | Bureaucracy | Government organized into different levels and tasks | |
| 533965845 | Animism | Belief that spirits inhabit everything | |
| 533965846 | Oracle Bones | Cattle bones or tortoise shells on which Chinese priests would write questions and then interpret answers from the cracks that formed when the bones were healed | |
| 533965847 | Dialects | Variations of a language | |
| 533965848 | Calligraphy | Chinese art of writing | |
| 533965849 | Xia Dynasty | Line of kings ruling over a late Neolithic people in the Huang River region of China starting in about 2000 BC | |
| 533965850 | Shang Dynasty | Invaders of the Huang River valley who came to power sometime between 1750 BC and 1500 BC and established the first dynasty in China | |
| 533965851 | Zhou Dynasty | People who overthrew the Shang dynasty of China in 1122 BC | |
| 533965852 | Autocracy | Government in which the ruler holds absolute power | |
| 533965853 | Civil Service | Centralized system that runs the day-to-day business of government | |
| 533965854 | Leveling | Policy in which government used price controls to balance the economic effects of farm surpluses or shortages | |
| 533965855 | Qin Dynasty | Dynasty that came to power in China in 221 BC, under which the first true empire of China was created | |
| 533965856 | Han Dynasty | Dynasty of rulers that ruled a centralized and growing empire in China | |
| 533965857 | Cheng | Ruler of the Qin dynasty | |
| 533965858 | Great Wall of China | Wall built and expanded upon by early rulers of China to protect from invasions | |
| 533965859 | Liu Bang | A commoner who became a Qin general | |
| 533965860 | Liu Che | The longest ruling Han emperor | |
| 533965861 | Silk Road | Trade route stretching from China to the Mediterranean | |
| 533965862 | Yin | Force that is female, dark, and passive; part of the Chinese belief of dualism or balance in life | |
| 533965863 | Yang | Force that is male, bright, and active; part of the Chinese belief of dualism or balance in life | |
| 533965864 | Confucius | A leading philosopher in the Zhou era | |
| 533965865 | Analects | Collection of the ideas and teachings of Confucius | |
| 533965866 | Laozi | A philosopher who founded the philosophy called Daoism | |
| 533965867 | Dao De Jing | Compilation of Laozi's teaching on Daoism | |
| 533965868 | Legalism | School of Chinese philosophy concerned with politics | |
| 533965869 | Genealogy | Record of a family history | |
| 533965870 | Acupuncture | Chinese medical practice of inserting needles into certain areas of the body | |
| 533965871 | Five Classics | Text used to train scholars and civil servants in ancient china |