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ancint china
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Oracle bones | An ancient script carved on tortoise shells or animals |
| Ethics | Moral values |
| 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 bad by nature and needed to be controld |
| Shi Huangdi | The first ruler of china he began the great wall and stander stolen of laws |
| Standardize | to set vules that make things more similar |
| Terracotta warriors | collection of terracotta sculputures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang |
| Diffusion of Buddhism | Buddhism spread through China when scholars translated buddhs texts through chinese |
| Silk road | 4,000 mile-long trade hey work that stretched from China to the Mediterranean sea |
| Acupuncture | inserting fine needles into the skin for medical purposes |
| Mandate of heaven | the idea that there could only be one legidment ruler of China at a time and that is ruler a the blessing of the god |
| Emperor | Imberial title given to leader of ancient china |
| Great wall | a wall that protected the Chinese from raids and invation by various onmadick groups |
| Calligraphy | style of writing used by the ancient Chinese used around 2,500 characters |
| Warlords | military rulers of small states who claim loyaty to the king |
| warring states period | a era of chaos where brutal and destructive fighting took place between 475 B.C to 221 B.C |
| Ancestor worship | practices of honoring the spirits of the dead |
| Filial piety | devotion of children to their parents children were expected to respect and obey there elders |
| censorship | controlling free thinking deciding to band ideas that leaders find dangerous or offensive |