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Foy WH Ch. 6 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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oracle | a prediction by a wise person, or a person who makes a prediction |
lord | a person of high rank who owned land but owed loyalty to his king |
peasant | a farmer with a small farm |
ethics | moral values |
Confucianism | a philosophy based on the ideas of Confucius that focuses on morality, family order, social harmony, and government |
Daoism | a philosophy that developed in China and stressed the belief that one should live in harmony with the Dao, the guiding force of all reality |
Legalism | the Chinese belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled |
sundial | a device that uses the position of the shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day |
seismograph | a device that measures the strength of an earthquake |
acupuncture | the Chinese practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain |
Silk Road | a network of trade routes that stretched across Asia from China to the Mediterranean Sea |
diffusion | the spread of ideas from one culture to another |