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The art of beautiful Chinese handwriting.
Calligraphy
The historical pattern of the rise, decline, and replacement of dynasties.
Dynastic cycle
A series of rulers from a single family.
Dynasty
A system of government in which local lords oversaw and used lands owned by the king, in exchange for their military service to the king.
Feudalism
Nicknamed: 1) the Yellow River b/c of the yellowish silt deposits it leaves behind from flooding and 2) China’s Sorrow b/c of the destructive floods it brings.
Huang He River
A form of picture writing that expressed thoughts and ideas using signs.
Ideographs
Yellowish silt good for growing crops.
Loess
The divine right to rule given from the gods.
Mandate of Heaven
Animal bones or tortoise shells used by ancient Chinese priests to communicate with the gods and predict the future.
Oracle bones
First civilization in China to leave written records.
Shang
Form of agriculture in which stepped ridges are constructed on hilly terrain to create more available farm land and to reduce erosion.
Terrace farming
Dynasty that overthrew the Shang. They ruled longer than any other ancient Chinese dynasty (1027 BC - 256 BC).
Zhou
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