Ancient China Flashcards
Oracle bone
Is a prediction
Jade
A hard gemstone
Lords
People high of rank
Peasant
Farmers will small farms
Confucius
Master teacher
Ethics
More values
Confucianism
The ideas of confucius
Daoism
Stressed in living in harmony with the Dao, the guiding force in all reality
Laozi
Was the most famous Daoist 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
Seismograph
Measures the strength of a earthquake
Acpuncture
The practice of inserting fine needles through skin at specific points
Silk
A soft, light, highly valued fabric
Silk Road
4,000 mile long network of routes stretched westward from China
Diffusion
The spread of ideas from one culture to another