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| A trade route that stretched from China to the Mediterranean Sea |
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| A person who gives wise advice |
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| A network appointed government officials |
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| The part of a bureaucracy that oversees the day-to-day business of running a government |
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| A religion and philosophy that teaches the key to long life and happiness is to accept life as it is |
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| Kind treatment of parents; translation of the Chinese word xiao |
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| The practice of making things of a certain type alike |
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| The ideas of the Chinese philosopher Confucius, which became a guide for the way people live |
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| Founder of the Zhou dynasty in China |
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| Philosopher considered to be the most revered person in Chinese history. His philosophy, known as Confucianism, became a guide for the way people lived. |
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| Structures built by the government for use by everyone |
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| The first emperor of the Han dynasty |
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| a way of government based on obligations between the lord or king and vassal |
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| Chinese emperor of the Han dynasty, who greatly extended the Chinese empire and made Confucianism the state religion |
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| a Prefect of the Grand Scribes |
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| the dynasty ruling in China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries bc |
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| first sovereign or ruler of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty |
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| The standard system of romanized spelling for transliterating Chinese |
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| A traditional Chinese philosophical concept concerning the legitimacy of rulers |
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| a rich soil deposit formed by wind |
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| a major river of Asia in northern China |
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