Quizlet Chapter 4 Vocab

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  1. acupuncture: Therapy contributed to medicine from the Chinese
  2. Analects: Collection of the ideas and teachings of Confucius
  3. animism: belief that spirits inhabit everything
  4. autocracy: The emperor has total power
  5. bureacracy: A government organized into different levels and tasks
  6. calligraphy: Characters used for writing
  7. Cheng: Ruler who found the Qin dynasty
  8. civil service: Runs the day-to-day business of a government
  9. Confucius: Leading philosopher
  10. Dao De Jing: Compilation of Laozi's teachings on Daoism
  11. dialects: Variations of the Chinese language
  12. dikes: Walls built by early farmers along the Huang to protect their crops
  13. Five Classics: Texts used to train scholars and civil servants in ancient China
  14. genealogy: Record of ancestors in a family tree
  15. Great Wall of China: Wall built and expanded upon by early rulers to protect from invasions
  16. Han: Dynasty of rulers that ruled a centralized and growing empire
  17. Laozi: Founder of the philosophy called Daoism
  18. Legalism: School of Chinese philosophy concerned with polotics
  19. leveling: Economic policy where the government used price controls to balance the economic effects of farm surpluses or shortages
  20. Liu Bang: A commoner who became a Qin general and overthrew the empire, then founded the Han dynasty
  21. Liu Ch'e: The longest-ruling han emperor who helped Han rule over a larger area than the Roman EMpire
  22. loess: Yellow soil in the Huang River Valley
  23. oracle bones: Shoulder bones of a cattle or tortoise shells that priests wrote questions on
  24. Qin: Created the first true empire of China
  25. Shang: Established the first dynasty in China
  26. Silk Road: Trade route stretching from China to the mediterranean
  27. Xia: A line of kings created by Yu, a mythological figure
  28. yang: Male force of the Chinese belief that everything in the world results from a balance between two forces;Bright, active
  29. yin: Female force of the Chinese belief that everything in the world results from a balance between two forces;Dark, passive
  30. Zhou: Overthrew the Shang dynasty