CHINA vocabulary
This is in my ancient civilizations class and we are lerning this vocab in the class. Any Comments write to me.
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- Oracle
- A person who gives wise advice.
- Confucianism
- The idea of the Chinese philosopher.
- Standardization
- The pratice of making all things of a certain type alike.
- Heritage
- A set of Ideas that have been passed down from one generation to another.
- Public Works
- Stuctures built by the government for use by everyone.
- Virtue
- A good quality.
- Pictograph
- A drawing or symbol used to represent a word Chinese language.
- Mandate
- An order
- Ancestor
- A deceased relatine who lived langer ago than a grandparent.
- Responsibility
- A duty.
- Militia
- Volentier solder.
- Legalism
- Chinese teachings that say people obay their rulers out of fear rather than respect.
- Civil war
- A war in whitch groups of people from the same plase or country fight one another.
- Philosopher
- A person who studies the meaning of life.
- Mandate of Heaven
- An order to rule Chinese belived it was given from heaven to the empires. when the Emperor was weak or disaster occured, the emperor was thought to have lost the Mandate of Heaven.
- Bureaucracy
- A network appointed government officials.
- Legend
- A story passed down from earlier times to explain the past.