ancient china

Ancestor

a person from whom one is descended.

oracle

a person thought to bee a source of wisdom or prophecy

philosopher

a person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment an expounder of a theory in a certain

warlord

a leader of an armed group

missionary

someone who attempts to convert other to a particular doctrine or program

peasant

a poor person who lives on and farms the land

Confucius

Chinese philosopher administrator and moralist his social and moral teaching collected in the analects tried to replace former religious observances

mandate of heaven

Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou to grant power to the ruler of china

Ying and yang

the concept that describes two opposing and at the same time complementary

legend

a narrative handed down from the past containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements

virtue

the thing of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong

loess

a fine grained unstratified accumlation of clay and slit deposited by the wind

jade

a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green

silk road

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

huang he

he stretches 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 or group of rulers that maintanis its position or power for some time

silk

a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect iarvae