China Vocab

Question 1

oracle bones

Answer 1

a prediction

Question 2

jade

Answer 2

A hard gemstone

Question 3

Lords

Answer 3

people of high rank

Question 4

Peasant

Answer 4

people with small farms

Question 5

Confucius

Answer 5

Master teacher

Question 6

Ethics

Answer 6

Moral values

Question 7

confuciuanism

Answer 7

the ideas of Confucius are know as Confuciation

Question 8

Daosim

Answer 8

Dressed living in harmony with the Dao the guiding force of all reality

Question 9

Legalism

Answer 9

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

Question 10

She Huangdi

Answer 10

First emperor

Question 11

Great wall

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Sundial

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Seismograph

Answer 13

A device that measures the strength of an earthquake

Question 14

Acupuncture

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Silk

Answer 15

A soft, light, highly valued fabric

Question 16

Slik road

Answer 16

4,000 mile network of routes stretched westward from china

Across Asia’s deserts and mountain ranges,through the middle east until it reached the Mediterranean sea