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Ancient China
vocab
Term | Definition |
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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 |