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