Ancient China Flashcards
oracle bones
Is a preditction
Jade
A hard gemstone
Lords
People of high rank
Peasant
Farmers with small farms
Confucius
Know as confucianism
Ethics
Moral values
Confucianism
A teacher
Daosim
Stressed living in harmony with the Dao, the guiding force of all reality.
Laozi
Was a famous teacher
Legalism
The belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled
Shi Huangdi
First emperor
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
Seismorgraph
Is a device that measures the strength of earthquakes
Acpuncture
Is a practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain