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Chinese Vocabulary
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| Silk road | 4,000 mile long trade network that stretched |
| Acupuncture | Inserting fine needles into the skin medical purposes |
| Seismograph | an instrument that gave limited details about ... |
| Mandate of Heaven | the idea that there could be only one legiment ruler of china at a time, and that this ruler had the blessings of the gods |
| Emperor | imperial title given to leader of ancient china |
| Great Wall | a wall that protected the empires from raids and invasions by various groups |
| calligraphy | style of writing used by ancient Chinese. Used around 2,500 characters. |
| Warlords | Military rulers of small states who claim loyalty to the king |
| Warring states period | an era of chaos where brutal and destructive fighting took place between 475 B.C and 221 B.C |
| Ancestor worship | practice of honoring the spirits of the dead |
| Filial Piety | Devotion of children to there parents. Children were expected to respect and obey their elders |
| Censorship | controlling free thinking. Deciding to ban ideas that leaders find dangerous or offensive |
| oracle bones | Ancient script carved on turtle shells or animal bones |
| Ethics | more values |
| Confucianism | The ideas of Confucius |
| Confucius | Most influential teacher in Chinese history |
| Daoism | Stressed living in harmony with the Dao, the guiding force of reality |
| Legalism | The belief that people were born bad by nature and needed to be controlled |
| Shi Huangdi | The first ruler of china |
| Standardize | to set rules that make things more similar |
| Terracotta Warriors | collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang |
| Diffusion of Buddhism | Buddhism spread through China when scholars translated Buddhist texts into Chinese |