Chapter 6

Question 1

jade

Answer 1

a 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

the most influential teacher in Chinese history

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

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

means the first emperor

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

seismograph

Answer 14

a device that measures the strength of an earthquake

Question 15

acupuncture

Answer 15

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

Question 16

silk

Answer 16

a soft, light, highly valued fabric

Question 17

Silk Road

Answer 17

The 4,000-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 18

diffusion

Answer 18

the spread of ideas from one culture to another.