| A | B |
|---|
| heritage | ideas passed down from generation to generation |
| Mandate of Heaven | the right to rule |
| responsibilities | duties |
| filial piety | the way Confucious felt children should treat their parents |
| export | to send to another country to sell |
| Legalism | strict laws to govern |
| bureaucracy | appointed government officials |
| silk road | the main way goods & ideas moved between Europe & China |
| virtues | good qualities needed to rule people |
| philosopher | a person who studies the meaning of life |
| standardization | making all things of a certain type alike |
| civil war | when groups of people from the same place or country fight one another |
| import | when a country brings in goods from other lands to sell |
| ambassador | a representative from a country's government |
| caravan | groups of traders |
| public works | structures built by the government for everyone's use |
