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| warlord | a military commander exercising civil power by force, usually in a limited area |
| aristocrat | a member of an upper class of society |
| ancestor | a person that someone is descended from |
| pictograph | a symbol in a writing system that is based on pictures |
| ideograph | a symbol in a writing system that represents a thing or idea |
| bureaucracy | a group of non-elected government officials |
| hereditary | having title or possession by reason of birth |
| Dao | Chinese system of beliefs that describes the way a person must rule |
| martial | of or appropriate to war; warlike |
| jade | a hard, typically green stone used for ornaments and implements and consisting of the minerals jadeite or nephrite |
| dagger | a short knife with a pointed and edged blade, used as a weapon |
| oracle bones | animal bones covered in ancient writing and were used to try to predict the future |
| divination | the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means |
| saddle | a seat fastened on the back of a horse or other animal for riding, typically made of leather and raised at the front and rear |
| stirrup | each of a pair of devices attached to each side of a horse's saddle, in the form of a loop with a flat base to support the rider's foot |
| silk | a fine, strong, soft lustrous fibre produced by silkworms in making cocoons and collected to make thread and fabric |
| merchant | a person or company involved in trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries |
| plot | a small area of ground |
