ISB China Words Flashcards
M.A.D. Chapter 9 "Ancient China"
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| 643461675 | ancestor | a relative (family member) who lived in the past | 0 | |
| 643461676 | oracle | a prediction about the future | 1 | |
| 643461677 | feudalism | an economic system in which the nobility (kings, etc) own farmland and peasants (poor farmers) work on it | 2 | |
| 643461678 | dialect | a different form of the same language | 3 | |
| 643461679 | nobility | a social class of people who hold the highest status in a society | 4 | |
| 643461680 | Confucianism | the ideas of Confucius which valued family, tradition and mutual respect | 5 | |
| 643461681 | province | an area or section of land (like a state) within a country | 6 | |
| 643461682 | bureaucracy | a system of organizing workers which is pyramid shaped: one person is at the top and the workers at each level supervise the workers below them | 7 | |
| 643461683 | censorship | the control of what people read, write, see or hear in an effort to stop the free expression of ideas | 8 | |
| 643461684 | seismograph | a machine used to measure the strength and direction of earthquakes | 9 | |
| 643461685 | middleman | a business person who buys goods from one person and sells them to another | 10 |