Ancient China Vocab

Question 1

Oracle Bones

Answer 1

Oracle is a prediction

Question 2

Jade

Answer 2

A hard jemstone

Question 3

Lords

Answer 3

Or people of high rank

Question 4

Peasant

Answer 4

Or farmers with small farms

Question 5

Confucius

Answer 5

Master teacher

Question 6

Ethics

Answer 6

Or moral values

Question 7

Confucianism

Answer 7

idea

Question 8

Daosim

Answer 8

Stressed living in harmony with the dao, the guiding force of all reality

Question 9

Laozi

Answer 9

Was most famous daoist teacher

Question 10

Legalism

Answer 10

The belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled.

Question 11

Shi Huangdi

Answer 11

First emperor he gave himself his name

Question 12

Great Wall

Answer 12

A barrier that linked earlier walls across china’s northern frontier

Question 13

Sundial

Answer 13

Uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of the day

Question 14

Seismorgraph

Answer 14

is a device that measures the strength of an earthquake

Question 15

Acpuncture

Answer 15

Is The practice of inserting fine needles through skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain

Question 16

Silk

Answer 16

The 4000 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

Question 17

Diffusion

Answer 17

The spread of ideas from one culture to another

Question 18

Confucius

Answer 18

Master teacher

Question 19

Ethics

Answer 19

Or moral values

Question 20

Confucianism

Answer 20

idea

Question 21

Daosim

Answer 21

Stressed living in harmony with the dao, the guiding force of all reality

Question 22

Laozi

Answer 22

Was most famous daoist teacher

Question 23

Legalism

Answer 23

The belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled.