1. Imperial China Focus Vocabulary
7th Grade World History

2. A class of wealthy landowners or nobles.
Aristocracy

3. A government ruling by officials of proven merit
Meritocracy

4. A belief system based on the ideas of Confucius
Confucianism

5. A religion that started in India and is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama
Buddhism

6. A line of hereditary rulers of a country, which was believed to hold the “mandate of heaven.”
Dynasty

7. The dynasty that reunified China and brought order from 581 to 618 A.D.
Sui Dynasty

9. The dynasty that ruled over China for nearly 300 years of wealth and power.
Tang Dynasty

11. The dynasty that ruled China after the Tang, from 960 to 1279 A. D
The dynasty that ruled China after the Tang, from 960 to 1279 A.D. and brought the ideas of scholar-officials to its height and created a meritocracy.
Song Dynasty

13. A government that is divided into departments
Bureaucracy

14. An educated person with a government position.
Scholar-officials

15. Civil Service Examinations
A test given to qualify candidates for positions in the government.
Civil Service Examinations

16. A printing system in which wood blocks were carved with characters to print entire pages and led to the invention of movable type.
Wood-block Printing

17. White ceramic commonly used in pottery
Porcelain

18. A network of trade routes across central Asian that connected China with Europe.
The Silk Road

19. A period of Mongol control over China
Mongol Rule

21. Genghis Khan’s grandson who became emperor of China under the Yuan dynasty from 1279 to 1368.
Kublai Khan