Ancient China

Ancestor

a person from whom one is descended

Oracle

a person who thought to be a source of wisdom or prophecy

philosopher

a person who seeks wisdom or enlighenment;an expounder of a theory in a certain area of experience

warlod

a leader of an armed group

missonary

somone who arremps to convert others to particular doctrine or program.

peasant

a poor person who lives on and farms the land

confucius

chinese philosopher adminstraotor and moralist his social and moral teachings collected in the analeecects tried to replace former religous observances.

mandate of heaven

chinese religious and political ideoology developed by the Zhou to grant power to the ruler of china.

ying and yang

the concept the describes two opposing and at the same time complementary aspects of any one phonmon or compirson of any two phenomena

legend

a nartive handed down from the past containing historical element and usulay supernatural elements

virtue

the quality of doging whatis right and avoiding what is wrong.

loess

a fine-grained unstrrattified accumulation of clay and slit depossited by the wind

jade

a light green color varying froom blusish green to yellowish green

silk road

an ancient trade route between china and the Mediterranean sea extending some 6440 km and linking china with roman empire

huang he

streches across china for roughly 2900 miles also known as the yellow river provides yellow silt called loess

chang jiang

also called the Yangtze river stretches 3400 miles longest river in asia

dynasty

a powerful family of group of rulers that maintains its position or power for some time

silk

a fabric mad from the thread produced by certain insects larvae