China Vocab Flashcards
Oracle bones
A prediction
Jade
A hard gemstone
Lords
People of a high rank
Peasant
Farmers with small farms
Confucius
A master teacher
Ethics
Moral values
Confucianism
The ideas of Confucius
Daosim
Stressed living in harmony with the Dao, the guiding force of all reality.
Laozi
Famous Daoist teacher
Legalism
The belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled
Shi Huangdi
The title that means “first emperor”
Great Wall
A barrier that linked earlier walls across China’s northern frontier
Sundial
An invention that uses the position of the sun to tell the time of day
Seismograph
A device that measures the strength of an earthquake
Acupuncture
The practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain
SIlk
A soft, light, highly valued fabric
Silk Road
A 4,000 mile long network of routes that stretched westward from China all the way to the Mediterranean sea
Diffusion
The spread of ideas from one culture to another
