Social Studies Final VOCAB!!!!💩

Question 1

Loess

Answer 1

A fine, dust-like material that can form soil

Question 2

Mandate of Heaven

Answer 2

The right to rule

Question 3

Warring States Period

Answer 3

Brutal and destructive conflict marked the period 475 B.C.E. to 221 B.C.E

Question 4

Dikes

Answer 4

Walls built to hold back water

Question 5

Oracle bones

Answer 5

Animal bones or turtle shells carved with written characters that the Shang Kings used to try and tell the future

Question 6

Warlords

Answer 6

Military rulers of small states

Question 7

Pictographs

Answer 7

Pictures that represent words or ideas

Question 8

Chaos

Answer 8

Total disorder and confusion

Question 9

Son of Heaven

Answer 9

The ruler of the tradition of the mandate of heaven

Question 10

Isolation

Answer 10

To be containd

Question 11

The Book of History

Answer 11

Ancient Chinese resource

Question 12

Philosophy

Answer 12

A way of how you think and live life

Question 13

Filial Piety

Answer 13

The relationship between a child and a parent

Question 14

Daoism

Answer 14

The yin and yang (Dao path)

Question 15

Yin and Yang

Answer 15

The balance between good in bad

Question 16

Standardize

Answer 16

To become uniform standard, and to make everything the same or similar

Question 17

Legalism

Answer 17

Harsh, strict rulers who ruled with harsh punishments and laws

Question 18

Censor

Answer 18

To ban

Question 19

The Dao

Answer 19

The way or the path

Question 20

Military state

Answer 20

The society organized for the purposes of waging war

Question 21

Helots

Answer 21

Conquered messenians

Question 22

Barracks

Answer 22

Military housing

Question 23

Direct Democracy

Answer 23

A political system in which citizens participate directly in decision making

Question 24

Oligarchy

Answer 24

Political power is held by a small group of people

Question 25

Citizenship

Answer 25

Membership in a community

Question 26

Tyranny

Answer 26

Governments run by a strong ruler

Question 27

Phalanx

Answer 27

The formation of heavily foot soldiers that move as one unit

Question 28

Representative Democracy

Answer 28

When citizens elect others to represent them in government

Question 29

Polis

Answer 29

City state of ancient Greece

Question 30

Acropolis

Answer 30

High city or a monument

Question 31

Democracy

Answer 31

A form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate