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

Question 6

ethics

Answer 6

moral values

Question 7

Confucianism

Answer 7

the ideas of Confucius

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

the title “first emperor”

Question 12

Great Wall

Answer 12

a barrier that linked earlier walls across Chinas northern frontier

Question 13

sundial

Answer 13

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

Question 14

seismograph

Answer 14

is a device that measures the strength of an earthquake

Question 15

acupuncture

Answer 15

is the practice of inserting fine needles through the human skin at specific points to cure disease or relive [ain

Question 16

silk

Answer 16

a soft highly valued product

Question 17

Silk Road

Answer 17

This 4000-mile long network of routes stretched westward for 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