click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Ancient China
21-22
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |