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ancient china
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| jade | a hard gemstone |
| oracle | a prediction |
| lords | people of high rank |
| peasants | farmers |
| ethics | morals values |
| Confucianism | the ideas of Confucius |
| 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 controlled |
| sundial | Uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day |
| seismorgraph | Device that measures strength of an earthquake |
| acupuncture | Is the practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure diseases or relieve pain |
| silk | soft light highly valued fabric |
| diffusion | the spread of ideas from one culture to another |
| terracotta army | It’s an army that is made out of terracotta that was requested by the emperor shi huangdi so he could be protected in the afterlife. |
| the great wall | A barrier that linked earlier walls across china’s northern frontier |
| silk road | A 4,000 mile long network of routes stretched westward from china across asia’s deserts and mountain reaches of the middle east, until it reached the mediterranean sea |