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China Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Jade | A hard gemstone |
Oracle | A prediction |
Lords | People of high rank |
Peasants | Farmers with small farms |
Ethnics | Moral values |
Confucianism | The ideas of Confucius |
Daoism | Living in harmony with the Dao, the guiding force of all reality |
Legalism | The belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled |
Great Wall | Barrier that linked earlier walls, across chinas northern frontier |
Sundial | Uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day |
Seismograph | A device that measures the strength of man earthquake |
Acupuncture | The 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 | 4,000 mile 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 speed of ideas from one culture to another |