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Ancient China Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Jade | A hard jemstone |
Oracle | A prediction |
Lords | People of high rank |
Peasants | A moral value |
Confucianism | The idea of confucius are known as confucianism |
Daoism | Stressed living in harmony with the Dao, the guidance of force of all reality |
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 shadows cast by the sun 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 a specific point to cure disease or relieve pain |
Silk | A soft, light, highly valued fabric |
Silkroad | 4,000-mile-long network of routes stretched westward from China across Asia's deserts and mountain ranges, through the Middle East, until it reached the Mediterranean sea. |
Diffusion | The spread of ideas from on culture to another |