Ancient china

vocabulary

Analects

the collected sayings and teachings of Confucius

Bronze age

time when people made weapons and tools from bronze

calligraphy

artistic form of ancient Chinese writing

Confucius

influential ancient chinese teacher and philosopher

dynasty

a ruling family

Great wall

milatary fortification built to stop other people from invading China.

Huang River Valley

area surrounding a Huang River in china

jade

hard,green colored stone used in carving

landscape

a painting of a natural scene

loess

yellowish soil from the Gobi desert

orale bones

animal bones used for predicting the futuree

pictograph

a picture that stands for a word

shang dynasty

first dynasty in China

taoism

ancient Chinese philosephy

Terracotta Army

collection of seven thousand life sized sculpters mad in pottery in the toumb of shi Huangdi

wattle and daub

building techique using wood and soil utilized by the anchient chineese

Zhou Dynasty

Chinas longest dynasty