chapter 6 vocab Flashcards
Jade
A hard gemstone
Oracle
Is a prediction
Lords
Or people of higher ranks
Peasant
Or farmers with small farms
Ethics
Or moral values
Confucianism
The ideas of conflicts are known as Confucianism
Daoism
Stressed living in harmony with the Dao the guiding force of all reality
Legalism
The belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled
Great wall
A barrier that linked earlier walls across China’s northern frontier
Sundial
A Sundial used the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day
Seismograph
A Seismograph is a device that mesures the strength of an earthquake
Acupuncture
Is the practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relive pain.
Silk
A soft, light, highly valued fabrick
Silk Road
This 4,000-mile long network of routes stretches westward from China across Asia deserts and mountains ranges, through the Middle East until it reached the Mediterranean Sea.
Diffusion
The spread of ideas from one curlture to another
Confucius
Became the most influential teacher in the Chinese history
Laozi
Was the most famous Daoist teacher
Shi Huangdi
Means (First Emperor)