SS Chapter 8 key terms Flashcards
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A wall to hold back water
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Dike
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A fine dust like like material that can form soil.
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Loess
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Pictures that represent words and ideas
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Pictograph
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In ancient China, the right to rule given to a dynasty by heaven force of nature
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Mandate of heaven
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Military ruler
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Warlord
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Total Disorder or diffusion
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Chaos
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From about 481 BC to 221BC a great conflict in ancient China
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Warring states period
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General study of knowledge in the world; Greek for love of wisdom
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Philosophy
8
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Religious practice of honoring spirits of the dead
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Ancestor worship
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A belief system based on the ideas of the Chinese thinker Confucious
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Confucianism
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Devotion of children to their parents
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Filial piety
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A philosophy of following the Dao,that is, the natural way of the universe
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Daoism
