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Ancient China
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Question | Answer |
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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 | The ideas and teachings of Confucius |
Daoism | meant 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. |
Shi Huangdi | means the first emperor. Originally king Ying Zheng who unified China. |
Great Wall | a barrier that linked earlier walls across China's northern frontier. |
Sundial | uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day. |
Seismograph | a deice that measures the strength of an 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 | the 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 spread of ideas from one culture to another |