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china vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Oracle bones | An ancient script made from turtle shell and other animals bones |
| Ethics | moral values |
| confucianism | the ideas of confucius |
| Daoism | stressed living in harmony with the Dao |
| Legalism | the belief that people are born bad 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 |
| Diffusion of Buddhism | how Buddhism spread through china |
| silk road | 4,000 mile-long trade network |
| Acupuncture | inserting fine needles into the skin |
| seismograph | an instrument to tell if there is an earthquakes |
| mandate of heaven | the idea that there could be only one ruler of china at a time |
| Emperor | imperial title given to the leader of china |
| great wall | a wall that protected the chinese |
| calligraphy | an ancient style of writing |
| warlords | military rulers of small states |
| warring states period | an era of chaos and war |
| ancestor worship | practices of honoring the dead |
| filial piety | devotion of children to their parents and elders |
| censorship | controlling free thinking |
| nomadic | a group of people who migrate |