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Words To Know China
Ancient China Words to know
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jade | A Hard Gemstone |
| Oracle | A Prediction |
| Lords | People Of A High Rank |
| Peasants | Farmers With Small Farms |
| Ethics | Moral Values |
| Confucianism | The Ideas Of Confucius |
| Daoism | Stressed Living In Harmony With The Dao |
| Legalism | The Belief That People Were Bad By Nature And Needed To Be Controlled |
| Great Wall | A barrier that linked earlier walls across china's northern frontier |
| Sundial | Uses the position of the suns shadow to tell the time of day |
| Seismograph | A device that measures the strength of an earthquake |
| Acupuncture | The practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specifics points to cure disease or relive pain |
| Silk | A soft light highly valued fabric |
| Silk Road | The 4000 mile long network of routes from china to Asia |
| Diffusion | The spread of ideas from one culture to another |