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Ancient China
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jade | Hard gemstone |
| Oracle | a prediction |
| Lords | people of high rank |
| Peasants | Farmers with small land |
| Ethics | moral value |
| Confucianism | the ideas of Confucius |
| Daoism | Stressed living in harmony with the dao |
| Legalism | Belief that people were evil by nature and need to be contained |
| Great wall | Barrier linked across china's northern frontier |
| Sundial | device that uses shadows cast from sun to tell time |
| Seismograph | device that measures strength of earthquake |
| Acupuncture | Practice of inserting needle into skin to cure disease and relieve pain |
| Silk | Soft,light,higly valued material |
| Silk road | 4000-mile-long network of routes stretched westward from china, until reaching the Mediterranean sea |
| Diffusion | Spread of ideas from one culture to another |