Ancient China vocab review!

3. _________ of Heaven is the belief that the Chinese king's right to rule came from the gods. The Mandate stated the idea that the gods chose a wise and good person to rule. The person chosen by the gods would govern honestly and well
4. people of noble birth whose wealth came from the land they owned. They passed their land and power to their children or to younger family members
7. inheriting one’s land or position from one’s parents; when an aristocrat died, a son or another member of his family governed the territory.
9. the fourth Chinese dynasty
11. are characters that represent objects. For example, the Chinese characters for the sun and the moon are pictographs.
13. _______ piety refers to people's responsibility to respect and obey their parents.
15. the study of the basic ideas about knowledge, truth, right and wrong, religion, and the nature and meaning of life; at times this includes how to structure a good society/government.

1. is a Chinese philosophy based on the teachings of a man named who lived during the warring states period; his teachings emphasized love for humanity; a high value given to learning and hard work, and especially, devotion to one’s family.
2. military leaders who lead their own armies and govern territory
5. Early Chinese farming civilizations developed in ______ valleys, just like most other ancient farming societies.
6. the network of officials who carry out tasks for the government
8. are another kind of character used in Chinese writing. They link two or more pictographs to express an idea. For example, the ideograph that stands for "forest" combines three pictographs of the word "tree."
10. the second Chinese dynasty
12. the third Chinese dynasty
14. the first Chinese dynasty
16. a Chinese philosophy that stressed the importance of a system of laws; this philosophy's founder believed that humans are naturally evil and thought strict laws and harsh punishments were necessary to force people to do their duty.