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Ancient China
Vocab words for 7th Grade SS - Ch. 6 Ancient China
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| jade | a hard gemstone |
| oracle | a prediction |
| lords | people of high rank |
| peasants | farmers with small farms |
| Confucius | most influential teacher in Chinese history |
| ethics | moral value |
| Confucianism | the ideas of Confucius |
| Daoism | an early Chinese belief that stressed living in harmony with the universe |
| Laozi | the most famous Daoist teacher |
| Legalism | an early Chinese belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled |
| structure | the way something is set up or organized |
| Shi Huangdi | literally "first emperor," the title the Qin king Ying Zheng gave himself |
| Great Wall | a barrier built by the Qin that linked earlier walls across China's northern frontier |
| sundial | a device that uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell time |
| seismograph | a device that measure the strength of an earthquake |
| acupuncture | the practice of inserting small needs through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain |
| innovation | a new idea, method, or device |
| silk | a soft, light, highly valued fabric made from the cocoons of silkworms |
| Silk Road | a network of routes between China and the Mediterranean Sea |
| diffusion | the spread of ideas from one culture to another |
| procedure | the way a task is accomplished |
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Ms. Thacker
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