Social Studies Chapter 5
Terms
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- confucianism
- the ideas of the Chinese philosopher Confucius, which became a guide for the way people live
- filial piety
- kind treatment of parents; translation of the Chinese word xiao
- hertiage
- a set of ideas that have been passed down from one generation to another.
- Mandate of Heaven
- the right to rule; the Chinese believe heaven gave it to their emporor.
- philospher
- a person who studies the meaning of life
- public works
- structures built by the government for use by everyone
- responsibility
- a duty
- virtue
- a good quality
- bureaucracy
- a network of appointed government officials
- civil war
- a war in which groups of people from the same place or country fight one another
- Legalism
- Chinese teaching that express a belief in the strick following of laws
- standardization
- the practice of making all things of a certain type alike
- ambassabor
- a representative of a government
- caravan
- a group of traders
- civil service
- the part of a bureaucracy that overseed the day-to-day business of running a government
- Daoism
- a religion and philosophy that teaches that the key to long life and happiness is to accept life as it is
- export
- to send out goods for sale to other places
- import
- to bring in goods for sale from other places
- profit
- money gained
- Silk road
- a trade route that stretched from China to the Mediterranean Sea