ancient china

Analects

the collected sayings and teachings of confucius

bronze age

3300-1200 BC time when ppl made weapons and tools from bronze

calligraphy

artistic form of ancient Chinese writting

Confucius

infulenential ancient Chinese teacher and pilosopher

dynasty

a ruling family

great wall

militatary forification built to stop other people from invading china

Huang river valley

area surrounding the huang river in china

jade

hard green colored stone used in carving

landscape

a panting of a natural scene

loess

yellowish soil from gobi desert.

oracle bones

animal bones used for predicting the future

pictography

a picture that stands for a word

shang dynasty

first dynasty in china

taoism

ancient chines philosophy

terracotta army

collection of seven thousand life sized scupture made from pottery in the tomb of shi huangdi

wattle and daub

building technique using wood and soil uilized by the ancient chinese

zhou dynasty

1046-256 BC chinas longest dynasty