| A | B |
|---|
| Mandate of Heaven | Chinese belief that kings received their authority to comand from heaven |
| Dao | the proper way that a king was expected to rule to please the gods and protect the people |
| filial piety | duty of family members to subordinate their needs & desires to those of the male head of the family |
| Confucianism | sytems of ideas based on the teachings of Confucius |
| Daoism | system of ideas based on the teachings of Laozi |
| Legalism | philosophy that stressed harsh laws and punishment |
| censorate | division of the bureaucracy in the Qin (Chin) dynasty that had inspectors who checked on government officials to make sure they were doing their jobs |
| gentry | class of people below the nobles but above the common people; became the political & economic elite of China |
| khanates | territories in the Mongol Empire, each ruled by one of Genghis Khan's sons |
| Xia | First dynasty of China |
| Shih Huang-ti | First emperor of China; basis for name China |
| Middle Kingdom | What the Chinese called their land |
| Time of the Warring States | 500 year period of civil war when traditonal values collapsed |
| Liu Bang | Founder of the Han dynasty |
| Sui Wen-ti | Founder of the Sui dynasty |
| Mandarins | High government officials; terms came into use during Song dynasty |
| Temujin | Mongol leader who united all the clans; given name Genghis Khan |
| Kublai Khan | ruler of the Yuan dynasty |
| Marco Polo | Young Italian who visited the court of Kublai Khan |
| Khanbaliq | captial of Yuan dynasty; later became Beijing |
