ch 6 vocab

Question 1

jade

Answer 1

hard gemstone

Question 2

oracle

Answer 2

a prediction

Question 3

lords

Answer 3

people of high rank

Question 4

peasants

Answer 4

farmers with small farms

Question 5

confucius

Answer 5

traveled to many different regions he earned the reputation of a respected teacher

Question 6

ethics

Answer 6

moral values

Question 7

confucianism

Answer 7

the ideas of Confucius are known as Confucianism

Question 8

daoism

Answer 8

stressed living in harmony with the Dao the guiding force of all reality

Question 9

laozi

Answer 9

was the 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

which means “first emperor”.

Question 12

sundial

Answer 12

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

Question 13

seismograph

Answer 13

is a device that measures the strength of an earthquake

Question 14

acupuncture

Answer 14

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

Question 15

silk

Answer 15

a soft, light, highly valued fabric

Question 16

Silk Road

Answer 16

this 4,000-mile-long network of routes stretched westward from China across Asia’s deserts and mountains 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

Great Wall

Answer 18

a barrier that linked earlier walls across China northern frontier