Vocab
Right to command
What is a Mandate?
Head of family honored by other members
What is Filial piety?
Change that brings improvement
What is Reform?
Built China’s first cities
Who is Shang?
Geographical features that shaped China’s civilization
What are Rivers, Mountains, Deserts?
Line of rulers in the same family
What is a Dynasty?
Medical treatment using thin needles
What is Acupuncture?
Disloyalty to the government
What is Treason?
Best known for bronze art
What are Shang Artists?
3 main classes in Chinese society
What are landowning aristocrats, farmers, merchants?
Member of the upper class whose wealth was based on land
What is an Aristocrat?
People with a similar position in society
What is a social class?
Military leader who also runs a government
What is a Warlord?
Ruled longer than any other dynasty in China’s history
What are Zhou?
The purpose of the Silk Road
What is carry chinese goods to other areas - Trade?
Ideas of his included a duty to participate in government
What is Confucianism?
The teaching of Laozi are the basis of this
What is Daoism?
Violent actions meant to scare others
What is Terror?
Sui dynasty leader who reunited China
Who is Wendi?
Heavenly law giving King power
What is the Mandate of heaven?
Appointed government officials
What is a Bureaucracy?
Groups of related families loosely joined together
What is a tribe?
Organized way to buy, sell, or produce
What is an Economy?
Mongol who conquered China
Who is Genghis Khan?
Not allowed to have government jobs
What are Merchants?