Social Studies Final VOCAB!!!!💩 Flashcards
Loess
A fine, dust-like material that can form soil
Mandate of Heaven
The right to rule
Warring States Period
Brutal and destructive conflict marked the period 475 B.C.E. to 221 B.C.E
Dikes
Walls built to hold back water
Oracle bones
Animal bones or turtle shells carved with written characters that the Shang Kings used to try and tell the future
Warlords
Military rulers of small states
Pictographs
Pictures that represent words or ideas
Chaos
Total disorder and confusion
Son of Heaven
The ruler of the tradition of the mandate of heaven
Isolation
To be containd
The Book of History
Ancient Chinese resource
Philosophy
A way of how you think and live life
Filial Piety
The relationship between a child and a parent
Daoism
The yin and yang (Dao path)
Yin and Yang
The balance between good in bad
Standardize
To become uniform standard, and to make everything the same or similar
Legalism
Harsh, strict rulers who ruled with harsh punishments and laws
Censor
To ban
The Dao
The way or the path
Military state
The society organized for the purposes of waging war
Helots
Conquered messenians
Barracks
Military housing
Direct Democracy
A political system in which citizens participate directly in decision making
Oligarchy
Political power is held by a small group of people
Citizenship
Membership in a community
Tyranny
Governments run by a strong ruler
Phalanx
The formation of heavily foot soldiers that move as one unit
Representative Democracy
When citizens elect others to represent them in government
Polis
City state of ancient Greece
Acropolis
High city or a monument
Democracy
A form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate
