ABC Alphabet Book By: Maelea Radford

A Aristocrat In ancient China aristocrats were nobles who got money from the land they owned.

B Bureacracy A bureacracy is a group of officials that are in charge of different areas of the government.

Civil service examination The civil service examinations were tests for people that determined if they got government jobs or not.

D Desert A desert is a big hot and sandy area of land that you can live on under certain circumstances.

Some dynasties built empires.

Gunpowder was used in a weapon called a firelance.

G Government Government in ancient China was very important because it gave people jobs and much more.

H Himalayas  The Himalayan mountain range is home to, the tallest mountain in the world, Mount. Everest.

An ideograph is a symbol standing for several ideas.

Buddhism spread to Japan in aboud A.D. 660

Kong Qui was Confucius' birth name.

Liu Bang started the Han dynasty and allowed China to trade.

A mandate is a type of order.

Neo-Confucianism was made to reduce the amout of buddhists.

Government officials were good jobs to have in ancient China.

Paper was an item that was traded on the silk road.

Q Qin Shihuangdi Qin Shihuangdi was the ruler of the Qin dynasty and made several changes that would last for a long time.

A ruler is a person that is in charge of a certain place or thing. Rulers A ruler is a person that is in charge of a certain place or thing.

S Social classes Some people were in a social class which meant some people were better than others.

The Silk Road was a major trade route.

Some of China's acomplishments were unbelivable.

V Vicious Some people in ancient China were vicious  toward one another such as the Mongols.

The ancient Chinese people invented ways of writing.

Historians know very little about the Xia dynasty.

The Yellow River was a very important mode of transportation.

Zhu Yangzhang was the first emperor of thye Ming dynasty. Zhu Yanzhang Zhu Yangzhang was the first emperor of thye Ming dynasty.