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Chapter 12 Vocabulary Terms
China Unites
1. Warlord – A military leader who runs a
government.
2. Economy - An organized way in which people
produce, sell, and buy goods and services.
3. Reform - A change that tries to bring about an
improvement.
4. Tribute - A payment made by one group or
nation to another to show obedience or to obtain
peace or protection.
• 5. Monasteries - Religious communities where
monks live and work.
• 6. Neo-Confucianism – Taught that life in this
world was just as important as the afterlife.
• 7. Merit System - Bureaucracy based on what a
person can do and not on their riches or personal
contacts.
• 8. Porcelain – A type of ceramic ware that is
made of fine clay and baked at high
temperatures.
• 9. Diamond Sutra - The earliest known printed
book which contained Buddhist teachings.
• 10. Calligraphy - The art of producing beautiful
handwriting.
• 11. Tribe - A group of related families.
• 12. Steppes - Wide, rolling, grassy plains.
• 13. Terror - Violent actions that are meant to
scare people into surrendering.
• 14. Treason - Disloyalty to the government.
• 15. The Forbidden City - Palace at the center of
the Imperial City where the emperor and his
court lived in luxury for more than 500 years.
• 16. Novel - A long fictional story.
• 17. Drama - A story told by actors who pretend
to be characters in the story.
• 18. Census - A count of the number of people.
• 19. Barbarians - Uncivilized people.
• 20. Jesuits - An order of priests known as the
pope’s agents in Europe.
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