| A | B |
|---|
| Huang He | Also known as the Yellow River |
| Yangtze | or Chang Jiang is longer than the Yellow River |
| Anyang | The first Chinese capital city (Shang dynasty) |
| Dynasty | line of ruler that belong to the same family |
| Oracle bones | first examples of written Chinese language |
| filial piety | practice that requires children to respect their parents |
| Laozi | Founder of Daoism |
| Hanfeizi | Thought humans were naturally evil so society needs harsh laws |
| Do your duty and society will do well | Confucius |
| Aristocrats | Nobles whose wealth came from the land they owned |
| Ideographs | join two or more pictographs to represent an idea |
| Mandate of Heaven | heavenly law that gave the Zhou king the power to rule |
| Dao | the proper "Way' to rule |
| Shang artists | best known for their works of bronze |
| bureaucracy | appointed government officials |
| Daoism | taught that people should give up worldly desires |
| Zhou dynasty | they developed irrigation and flood control systems |
| social classes | aristocrats, farmers, and merchants |
| Period of Warring States | rulers sent armies to destroy enemy states and many innocent people died |
| Qin Shihuangdi | powerful ruler who based his rule on Legalism |
| The Great Wall | Qin built it to protect China. It lasted centuries to finish building it |
| the terra-cotta army | Shihuangdi buried these clay soldiers in his tomb |
| Liu Bang | funded the Han dynasty |
| Han Wudi | the empire grew in size and reached its peak when he ruled |
| Paper, acupuncture, rudder, and steel | Han inventions |
| Wu Wang | leader of the Zhou dynasty who led a rebellion against the Shang |
| The Silk Road | large network of trade routes from China to the Middle East and beyond |
| Buddhism | helped people cope with fear and stress and became popular by the 400s |
