china Flashcards

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oracle bones

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Oracle Is a prediction

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2
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jade

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Jade is a hard gemstone.

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3
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Lords

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lords , or people of high rank.

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4
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Peasant

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Peasants, or farmers with small farms

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5
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Confucius

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Confucius a influential teacher in chinese history

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6
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Ethics

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Ethics or more values.

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7
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Confucianism

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The ideas of confucius are known as confucianism

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8
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Daosim

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Stressed living in harmony with the dao, the guiding force of all reality

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9
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Laozi

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Was the famous daoist teacher

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10
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Legalism

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The belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled

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11
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Shi Huangdi

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First emperor

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12
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Great Wall

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A barrier that linked earlier walls across china’s northern frontier

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Sundial

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

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14
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Seismograph

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Is a device that measures the strength of an earthquake

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14
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Acupuncture

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

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15
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Silk

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A soft, light, highly valued fabric.

16
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Silk Road

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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.

17
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Diffusion

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The spread of ideas from one culture to another