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Early China History
Vocabulary for Ms. Johnson's Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| jade | a hard gemstone |
| oracle | prediction |
| lords | people of high rank |
| peasants | farmers with small farms |
| Confucius | most influential teacher in Chinese history |
| ethics | moral values |
| Confucianism | the ideas of Confucius |
| Daoism | stressed living in harmony with the Dao, the guiding force of all reality |
| Laozi | the most famous Daoist teacher. Taught that people should not try |
| legalism | the belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled |
| Shi Huangdi | means "first emperor", Qin king who unified China |
| Great Wall | a barrier that linked earlier walls across China's northern frontier |
| sundial | uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tll the time of day |
| seismograph | a device that measures the strength of an earthquake |
| accupuncture | practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain. |
| silk | a soft, light, highly valued fabric |
| Silk Road | 4,000mile long network of routes stretched westward from China across Asia's deserts and mountain ranges, through the Middle East, until it reached the Mediterranean Sea. |
| diffusion | the spread of ideas from one culture to another |
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