Chapter 6

Question 1

Jade

Answer 1

Jade, a hard gemstone

Question 2

Oracle

Answer 2

oracle is a prediction

Question 3

Lords

Answer 3

lords, or people of high rank

Question 4

Peasants

Answer 4

Peasants, or farmers with small farms

Question 5

Confucius

Answer 5

Confucius wanted China to return to ideas and practices from a time when people knew their proper roles in society.

Question 6

Ethics

Answer 6

ethics, or moral value.

Question 7

Confucianism

Answer 7

The ideas of Confucius are known as Confucianism.

Question 8

Daoism

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Laozi

Answer 9

Laozi (LOWD-zuh) was the most famous Daoist teacher.

Question 10

Legalism

Answer 10

Legalism, the belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled.

Question 11

Shi Huangdi

Answer 11

Shi Huangdi (SHEE hwahng-dee), which means “first emperor.”

Question 12

Great Wall

Answer 12

Great Wall, a barrier that linked earlier walls across China’s northern frontier.

Question 13

Sundial

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Seismograph

Answer 14

A seismograph is a device that measures the strength of an earthquake.

Question 15

Acupuncture

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Silk

Answer 16

silk, a soft, light, highly valued fabric

Question 17

Silk Road

Answer 17

Silk road. This 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

diffusion, the spread of ideas from one culture to another.