| A | B |
|---|
| contributed to the chinese belief that china was at the center of the earth. | Isolation by physical barriers. |
| Loess | windblown yellow soil |
| Clans | groups of families |
| Shang | first dynasty, emerged to drive off nomads |
| Zhou | Overthrew Shang, mandate of heaven |
| Dynastic cycle | rise and fall of dynasties |
| Feudalism | local lords governed, but still owed allegiance to a central ruler, through military means or other. |
| the economy in the zhou period | grew |
| Qin | dynasty which came after zhou when the feudal lords finished warring |
| predominant belief systems in Zhou China | confucius and Laozi |
| Philosophy | system of ideas |
| filial piety | repect for parents |
| Daoism | Major chinese religion, focuses on harmony with ones self and nature |
