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Term | Definition |
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Jade | A hard gemstone |
Oracle | A prediction |
Lords | People of high rank |
Peasants | Farmers with small farms |
Ethics | Moral values |
Confucianism | Ideas of moral values |
Daoism | Stressed living in harmony with the Dao the guiding force of reality |
Legalism | The belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled |
Great Wall | A barrier that linked earlier walls across Chinas northern frontier |
Sundial | Uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of the day |
Seismograph | A device that measures the strength of an earthquake |
Acupunture | The practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain |
Silk | 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 the Mediterranean Sea |
Diffusion | The spread of ideas from one culture to the next |