| A | B |
|---|
| oracle bones | used to predict the future |
| loess | yellow silt |
| levees | holds back the water |
| civil service | the practice of using skills to work in the government |
| provinces | political divisions |
| middlemen | people who go between buyers and sellers |
| nobility | high ranking social class |
| The Analects | collection of saying by Confucius |
| Mandate of Heaven | divine right to rule |
| Daoism | belief in finding the way |
| Laozi | great first teacher of Daoism |
| Confucius | his ideas greatly influenced Chinese culture |
