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| Hunag He | Sometimes called the Yellow River, it gets it's name from the yellow soil it carries from Mongolia to the Pacific Ocean |
| Chang Jiang | Sometimes called the Yangtze River, it frlows for 3,400 miles east across central China |
| Anyang | China's first capital under thr Shang dynasty |
| Aristocrats | Nobles whose wealth came from the land they owned |
| Pictographs | Characters that stand for objects in Chinese writing |
| Ideographs | A character that joins two or more pictographs to represent an idea |
| Wu Wang | He lad a rebellion against the Shang, and after defeating them he began a new dynasty called the Zhou |
| Bureaucracy | Made up of appointed officials who are responsible for different ideas of government |
| Mandate | Formal order |
| Social Class | Includes people who share a similar position in society |
| Filial Piety | Means children have to respect their parents and older relatives |
| Confucius | Ancient China's first greatest thinker and teacher. Wanted to end problems in China and bring peace to society |
| Confucianism | Taught that all men with a talent for governing should take part in government |
| Daoism | Another Chinese philosophy that promotes a peaceful society |
| Laozi | Daoism is based on him, also known as the Old Master |
| Legalism | "School of Law" |
| Hanfeizi | Scholar during the 200s B.C. that developed the teachings of Legalism, and taught humans were naturally evil |
| Qin Shihuandgdi | Means "the First Qin Emperor" |
| Guangzhou | City in Southern China that is connected to the Chang Jiang in central China by a canal |
| Liu Bang | Founded the Han dynasty in 202 B.C. and eventually declared himself Han Gaozu- meaning "Exalted Emperor of Han" |
| Han Wudi | Means "Martial Emperor of Han" and he ruled from 141 B.C. to 87 B.C. |
| Acupuncture | Treatment that eases pain by sticking thin needles into patients' skin |
| Silk Road | Large network of trade routes that stretched 4,000 miles from western China to southwest Asia |
| Luoyang | The Han capital |
