China Vocab
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- Khan
- absolute ruler
- mandate of heaven
- Belief of Chinese emperors that they ruled because the gods wanted them to rule.
- commune
- In communist China, a collective farm on which a large amount of people worked and lived
- civil service
- the practice of using skills and talents to work in the government
- mao zedong
- This was the leader of the 20th century Communist revolution in China; led the long march.
- opium war
- War between Chinese and Britain over opium trade
- filial piety
- VOCABULARY: An idea of Conficius that parents should be treated with the greatest respect. Lesson 3
- sphere of influence
- A foreign region in which a nation has control over trade and other economic activities.
- meritocracy
- the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth
- feudalism
- the type of government used in ancient china
- sino-japanese war
- Conflict between China and Japan over control in Korea, China was easily defeated.
- bureaucracy
- government administrators
- oracle bones
- an animal bone or turtle shell used by priests to tell the future