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Ancient China Vocab
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Term | Definition |
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Jade | a hard gemstone |
oracle | is a prediction |
lords | people of high rank |
peasants | farmers with small farms |
ethics | moral values |
confucianism | the ideas of Confucius |
daoism | stressed living in harmony with Dao the guiding force of all reality |
legalism | the belief that people were bad by nature nature and needed to be controlled |
Great Wall | A barrier that linked earlier walls across china's northern frontier |
sundial | Used the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell time of day |
seismograph | the device that measures the strength of an earthquake |
acupunture | the practice of inserting needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain |
silk | a soft highly values fabric |
Silk Road | this 4000 mile long network of routs streghted westward from china across Asias deserts and mountain ranges through the Middle East until it reached the Mediterranean sea |
diffusion | the spread of ideas from one culture to another |