Ancient China Vocabulary
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- philosopher
- A person who studies the meaning of life.
- civil service
- The part of a bureacracythat oversees the day-to-day buisness of running a government.
- responsibility
- A duty.
- ambassador
- A representative of a government.
- Daoism
- A religion and philosophy that teaches that the key to a long life and happiness is to accept life as it is.
- stadardization
- The practice of making all things of a certain type alike.
- import
- To bring goods for sale from other places.
- Legalism
- Chinese teachings that express a brief in the strict following of laws.
- Mandate of Heaven
- The right to rule;the Chinese believed heaven gave it to their emperors. When an emperor was weak or disasters occurred, the emperor was thought to have lost it.
- export
- To send out goods for sale to other places.
- civil war
- A war in which groups of people from the same place or country fight one another.
- Silk Road
- A trade route that sketched from China to the Mediterranean Sea.
- filial piety
- Kind treatment of parents; translation of the Chinese word xiao.
- public works
- Structures built by the government for use by everyone.
- virtue
- A good quality.
- caravan
- A group of traders.
- Confucianism
- The ideas of the Chinese philosopher Confucius, which became a guide for the way people live.
- heritage
- A set of ideas that have been passed down from one generation to another.
- bureacracy
- A network of appointed government officials.
- profit
- Money gained.