4.2 Chinas past Flashcards
a city in china
anyang
was a king of china
Shi Huangdi
emperor of china
Gaozu
was a emperor of china
Wu Di
historian of china
Sima Qian
first female Chinese historian
Ben Zhao
a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictographs were used as the earliest known form of writing, examples having been discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000 BC.
Pictograph
are pieces of turtle shell or bone, normally from ox scapulae or turtle plastrons, which were used for pyromancy – a form of divination – in ancient China, mainly during the late Shang dynasty.
oracle bone
principal administrative division of certain countries or empires.
province
a person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended.
ancestor
the permanent professional branches of a government’s administration, excluding military and judicial branches and elected politicians.
civil service
a person who buys goods from producers and sells them to retailers or consumers.
middleman
according to traditional historiography, ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Zhou dynast
Shang Dynasty
the Bronze Age begins in the Protodynastic period, c. 3150 BCE. The Aegean Bronze Age begins around 3000 BC, when civilizations first established a far-ranging trade network. This network imported tin and charcoal to Cyprus, where copper was mined and alloyed with the tin to produce bronze.
Bronze Age
was a chinese dynasty
Zhou Dynasty
