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| a person from whom another is directly descended, esp someone more distant than a grandparent; forefather |
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| an utterance, often ambiguous or obscure, given by a priest or priestess at a shrine as the response of a god to an inquiry. |
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| a person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields. |
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| a diplomatic official of the highest rank, sent by one sovereign or state to another as its resident representative |
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| a kinship group consisting of a family nucleus and various relatives, as grandparents, usually living in one household and functioning as a larger unit. |
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| a military leader, especially of a warlike nation. |
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| a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work. |
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| a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank. |
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| the male sovereign or supreme ruler of an empire. |
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| an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (4,000 miles); followed by Marco Polo in the 13th century to reach Cathay |
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| a river flowing from W China into the Gulf of Bohai. 2800 miles (4510 km) long. |
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| a river in E Asia, flowing from the Tibetan plateau through central China to the East China Sea. about 3200 miles (5150 km) long. |
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| a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons. |
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| Chinese philosopher and teacher. |
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| whose family name is Ying and first name is Zheng, is one of the most famous kings in Chinese history |
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| the imperial dynasty of China from about 1126 to 255 bc |
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| was the first sovereign, or ruler of the Chinese |
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| a dynasty in China, 206 b.c.–a.d. 220, with an interregnum, a.d. 9–25: characterized by consolidation of the centralized imperial state and territorial expansion. |
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| a Chinese dynasty whose dates are usually given as 1766–1122 b.c. and sometimes as 1523–1027 b.c. |
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| 247–195 b.c., Chinese emperor: founder of the Han dynasty 202 b.c. |
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| Emperor of the Chinese Han dynasty who vastly increased its authority and its influence abroad and made Confucianism China's state religion. |
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| was a prefect of the Grand Scribes of the Han dynasty. He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography |
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| a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source |
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| the philosophical system evolved by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu, advocating a life of complete simplicity and naturalness and of noninterference with the course of natural events, in order to attain a happy existence in harmony with the Tao. |
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| a system for transliterating Chinese into the Latin alphabet: introduced in 1958 and adopted as the official system of romanization by the People's Republic of China in 1979. |
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