dialect
Legalism
Confucianism
heritage
daoism
steppes
terrace farming
Mandate of Heaven
feudalism
loess
a system of philosophical teachings founded by Confucius
a way of governing that gave absolute power to one ruler, who governed under strict laws
set of ideas passed down from one generation to another
the belief that the god Tien gave certain people an order to rule
building a platform on the slopes of hills and mountains and using it to plant and grow rice
political system of exchanging land for loyalty
deposits of yellow silt
way of speaking
dry, treeless grassland
the philosophy of belief that believes in the simple honest life and not interfering with natural events
