China Vocab 1
to improve the quality of something
What is enrich.
a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes proper behavior
What is Confucianism.
a large group of family members and friends
What is clan.
the religion which teaches that life brings suffering that one can escape through happiness and peace
What is Buddhism.
to set apart from other people or things
What is isolated.
a power or law believed to be granted by the heavens
What is Mandate of Heaven.
a part or section of a country
What is region.
a network of trade routes that stretched for more than four thousand miles across Asia
What is Silk Road.
places, usually in a desert, where water can be found
What is oases.
honoring of ancestors through rituals, such as offering food and wine to the spirits of the dead
What is ancestor worship.
to exchange or share thoughts, feelings, or information with people, using words, writings, or other methods
What is communicate.
the Daoist concept of opposing forces of nature
What is yin and yang.
the average weather conditions at a particular place
What is climate.
a piece of bone or shell heated and cracked by holy men to seek advice from a king’s ancestors
What is oracle bone.
a stone-and-earth wall about 1,500 miles long, first built during the Qin dynasty to defend China’s northern boundary
What is Great Wall.
a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes strict obedience to laws
What is Legalism.
light, fertile soil that yields bountiful grain crops
What is loess.
a person who works for a government
What is civil servant.
each dynasty rises to a political, cultural, and economic peak and then, because of moral corruption, declines, loses the Mandate of Heaven, and falls, only to be replaced by a new dynasty
What is dynastic cycle.
the differences between people or things, when they are compared
What is contrast.
a region in the Huang He River valley, where Chinese civilization began
What is North China Plain.
able to live forever
What is immortal.
a strong metal alloy made from copper
What is bronze.
a stream or river that feeds into a larger stream, river, or lake
What is tributaries.
a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes living in harmony with nature
What is Daoism.