Ancient China Flashcards
What is the study of the basic ideas and beliefs of society?
philosophy
What is a military leader who controls an area of land called?
warlord
What belief states that the right to rule comes from the gods?
mandate of heaven
What is the idea that children should honor and care for their parents?
filial piety
What is a symbol or picture in a writing system that combines two or more pictographs to express an idea called?
ideographs
What is a symbol or picture in a writing system that represents an object?
pictographs
Who are the upper class citizens that hold wealth and power?
aristocrats
What is a person that someone is descended from called?
ancestors
Which dynasty began the process of building the Great Wall of China?
qin dynasty
How did Han Wudi, of the Han dynasty, reform the government?
He established a competitive hiring system based on a persons skill, not their status or wealth.
Duty to one’s family, practice good actions, government offices open to all people, were ideas practiced by what philosophy?
Confucianism
Which major trade route spread goods from China to parts of the Middle East, Africa, and Europe?
the silk road
Did the Great Wall of China keep the Mongols from invading?
no
What job was held by the majority of people in China?
farming
In Buddhism, what needs to be followed to help a person reach Nirvana?
the eightfold path (also called the middle path)
