China Flashcards
A series of rulers from the same family.
Dynasty
A social structure in which the King gave land to his supporters in return for military service, and the peasants work the land for the lord in return for protection.
Feudalism
Also known as the Chang Jiang
Longest river in Asia
Yankees river
Also known as the Huang He
Yellow river
The belief that moral leadership would bring order to chaos and lead to a peaceful society.
Confucianism
A belief that stresses living in harmony with nature
Daoism
The belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled.
Legalism
A wall used to protect China from invaders.
Great Wall
Device that measures the strength of an earthquake.
Seismograph
4,000-mile-long network of trade routes that stretched from China to the Mediterranean Sea.
Silk Road
Spreading cultural ideas to other places (e.g., Buddhism spread from India to China).
Cultural Diffusion