| A | B |
|---|
| jade | a hard gemstone |
| oracle | a prediction |
| Huang He | Yellow River |
| Chang Jiang | Yangzi River |
| Xia | first dynasty in China, little is known of them |
| dynasty | power handed down through families |
| lords | people of high rank |
| peasants | farmers with small farms |
| Confucius | the most influential teacher in Chinese history |
| ethics | moral values |
| Confucianism | the ideas of Confucius |
| Daoism | an early Chinese belief that stressed living in harmony with nature |
| Laozi | the most famous Daoist teacher |
| Legalism | an early Chinese belief that people were by nature band and needed to be controlled by a strict government |
| Shi Huangdi | first emperor of the Qin dynasty |
| Great Wall | a barrier across China's northern border |
| acupuncture | the partice of insering needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relive pain |
| silk | made by silk worms; a soft, highly valued fabric |
| Buddism | a religion from India that gave the Chinese hope as the Han dynasty started to fall |
| Silk Road | a network of trade routs between China and the Mediterranean Sea |
| artisan | middle class in China, lived in groups based on their job |
| oracle bones | Chinese rulers used these to help make predictions |
| Mandate of Heavan | a rule that said you can throw over a king if he isn't doing his job well |
| rice | main crop in China grown in the wet South |
