Directions: Use the vocabulary words in the box to fill in the blanks and complete this summary of Chapter 10. You may have
to change the form of the word. For example, you may to use
the plural form of a noun (aristocrats) or the past tense of a
verb (emerged).
VOCAB WORDS:
civil service
emerge
Daoism
military
warlord
ideograph
Legalism
aristocrat
unify
Confucianism
ancestor
Mandate of Heaven
filial piety
currency
pictograph
philosophy
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China's first dynasty was the Shang. Shang kings ruled China
from 1750 B. C. to 1045 B. C. The Shang king was the political,
religious, and 1)
leader of the country.
Leaders of territories, known as 2)
and
other royal officials formed an upper class of
3)
. Most Shang people, however, were
farmers.
The Shang worshipped many gods. They honored their
4)
and used oracle bones to seek their
guidance. Oracle bones show us examples of early Chinese
writing. Early Chinese writing used 5)
pictographs
to
represent objects and 6)
ideographs
to represent ideas.
The Zhou dynasty followed the Shang. The Zhou ruled for
800 years. Zhou kings had strong armies and soon ruled over
a larger territory than the Shang. Zhou kings claimed that
their right to rule from the 7)
the belief
that a king's right to rule came from the gods.