Vocabulary, Ancient China
Name _____________________________ # _________
Directions:
1. Write out the complete definition for the following vocabulary words. (You may use your textbook pgs. 52 & 59 or LongmanDictionary.com)
2. Draw and color a picture or cartoon that will help you remember the definition.
3. Write out a sentence using the word correctly. (You may use a sentence from the book or from the Internet.) Highlight the vocab word.
Vocabulary
Word
Textbook Definition
ancestor worship
• Honoring ancestors
through rituals
• Such as offering
food and wine to
the dead
Mandate of
Heaven
feudalism
• A political theory of
Ancient China in which
those who have power
were given the right to
rule by a divine source
• A system in which
people were given land
and protection by the
people of higher rank,
and worked and fought
for them in return
Picture or cartoon that will help me
remember the word’s meaning…
My sentence using the vocab word.
(Vocab word is highlighted.)
Vocabulary
Word
civil servant
standardized
bureaucracy
compass
Textbook Definition
• Someone who works for
local, state, or national
government; who gets paid
with tax dollars and work
for the betterment of
society
• To make all the
things of one
particular type
exactly the same as
each other
• A large group of people
who are involved in running
a government but who are
not elected, a system of
government or business
that has many complicated
rules and ways of doing
things.
• An instrument that
shows directions and
has a needle that
always points north
Picture or cartoon that will help me
remember the word’s meaning…
My sentence using the vocab word.
(Vocab word is highlighted.)
Vocabulary
Word
Silk Road
caravan
Economy
Textbook Definition
• An ancient route along
which silk was carried
from China and across
central Asia to
the Eastern
Mediterranean
and Europe
• A group of people
with animals or
vehicles who travel
together for safety,
especially through
a desert
• The system by
which a country’s
money and goods
are made and
traded
Picture or cartoon that will help me
remember the word’s meaning…
My sentence using the vocab word.
(Vocab word is highlighted.)