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Ancient China Glossary (Team 2 Flashcards

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Ancestor

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a member from a past generation of a family

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Civil Service

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the professional branches of a government’s organization

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Confucianism

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a system of philosophical teachings

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Currency

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a system of money; a way of payment

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Export

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send goods to another

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Extended family

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a family that extends past the nuclear family

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Heritage

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property that is inherited

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Huang•he•river

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the yellow river;third longest river in Asia

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Import

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bring goods into a country

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Legalism

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a nation with strict laws and consequences

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Legend

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a myth; a traditional story

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Loess

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a loosely compacted yellowish gray deposit of windblown sediment in eastern China

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Mandate of Heaven

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the idea that god chose the ruler

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Middle Kingdom

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what the Chinese Empire was known historically by the chinese

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Oracle

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a priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prediction was sought from the gods

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Oracle Bone

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) pieces of shell or bone which were used in communicating with ancestors/gods in hopes of finding good fortune

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Philosopher

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a theorist

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Pictograph

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a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase

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Profit

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a financial gain

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Shi Huangdi

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First emperor of Qin

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Silk road

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an ancient network of trade routes

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Silk

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toreador fabric made from fiber produced by a silkworm

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Standardization

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the process of making something conform to a standard

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The Great Wall

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A stone wall extending for fifteen hundred miles across northern china

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Warlord

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a military commander

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