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Ancient china vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Oracle bones | A ancient script on shells |
| Ethics | Moral values |
| Confunciationism | The focusing on family and morality of Confucus |
| Confucius | The most Influential teacher in Chines |
| Legalism | The people that were bad by nature and need to be taught |
| Shi Haundgi | The first ruler of China and built the great wall. |
| Standerize | To set rules that make things more Similiar |
| Terracotta warriors | The collection of terracotta sculputures depicting the armies of Shi Haundgi |
| Diffiusion of Budism | Buddisits spread through china when the language was trabslated to Chinese |
| Silk road | 4k mille long trade route that stretched from China to the Mediterianian sea. |
| Acupuncter | Inserting fine needles into skin for Medical purposes |
| Seismograph | An instrument that gave little details on if there was a earthquake or not. |
| mandate of Heaven | The idea that there could only be one ruler,that te ruler had a blessing of the gods. |
| Emperor | Imperial title given to the leaders of China. |
| Great wall | A wall that protected china for thousands of years from various groups |
| Calligraphy | Style of writing used by ancient chinese |
| warlords | military rulers from small states that claim loyalty to the king. |
| Warring states period | A era of chaos between 475 B.C to 221 B.C |
| Ancestor worship | Practices of honoring the dead. |
| filial prey. | The children's devotion to there parents |
| Censorship | the act of not allowing freedom of speech. Making everyone not being able to have there own thoughts, |