Bob China Flashcards
Oracle bones
a prediction
Jade
A hard gemstone
Lords
people of high rank
Peasant
Farmers with small farms
Confucius
Confucius
Ethics
Moral Values
Confucianism
ideas
Daoism
Stressed living in harmony
Laozi
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 the day
Seismograph
Is a device the measures the strength of an earthquake
Acupuncture
Is the practise of interesting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain
Silk
A spft silk highly valued fabric
Silk Road
This 4000 mile long network of routes stretched west wiard from china across asia deserts and mountains ranges through the middle east until it reaches the mediterranean sea
Diffusion
The spread of ideas from one culture to another