Key Vocabulary to Know
A line of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
The first emperor of China.
Who is Qin Shi Huangdi?
This invention utilized the power of a magnet.
What is the compass?
This river is also know as the Yellow River.
What is the Huang He River.
This belief system emphasizes living in harmony with nature.
What is Daoism?
Animal bones used to consult the many gods the Shang people worshipped.
What were oracle bones?
This dynasty was the first to emerge on the Huang He River around 1600 B.C.
What was the Shang dynasty?
These helped improve the efficiency of farming in ancient China.
This river is also known as the Yangtze River.
What is the Chang Jiang River?
The symbol often used in Daoism to show how seemingly opposite forces form a whole.
What is the Yin and Yang symbol?
The respect children owe their parents and ancestors.
What is filial piety?
The first dynasties of China.
What were the Shang and Zhou dynasties?
This invention was important to the development of fireworks, cannons, and guns.
What is gunpowder?
This mountain range separates China from the Indian subcontinent.
What are the Himalaya?
This religious leader formed a belief system that focused on the duties and responsibilities in five important relationships.
What is Confucianism?
Appointed officials that ran bureaus or offices of the government.
What is a bureaucracy?
A concept developed by the Zhou that said a king could rule only as long as the gods believed he was worthy.
What was the mandate of heaven?
One of the most valued and beautiful textiles or cloths manufactured in ancient China.
What is silk?
This ocean is to the east of China.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This belief system or religion spread from India to China.
What is Buddhism?
Traders on the Silk Roads usually walked alongside camels and traveled in groups called these.
What are caravans?
A pattern of the rise and fall of dynasties in China.
What is the dynastic cycle?
The most important invention of the Han Dynasty which revolutionize the economy and trade.
What is the Chinese invention of paper?
Ancient civilizations including China arose along these geographical features.
What are fertile river valleys?
This belief emphasized order through strong government and strictly enforced laws.
What is legalism?