China Vocab Flashcards

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oracle bones

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Is a prediction

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2
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Jade

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A hard gemstone

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3
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Lords

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Or people of high rank

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4
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Peasant

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Or farmers with small farms

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5
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Confucius

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The ideas of confucius are known as confucianism

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6
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Ethics

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Normal values

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7
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Confucianism

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Confucius wanted china to return to ideas and practices

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8
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Daosim

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Stressed living in harmony with the Dao, the guid-ing force of all reality

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9
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Laozi

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

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10
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Legalism

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Was th most famous Daoist teacher

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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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13
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Sundial

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

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14
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Seismorgraph

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is a device that measure the strength of an earthquake

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15
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Acpuncture

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is the practice if inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or realive pain

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16
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Silk

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A soft light highly valued fabric

17
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Silk Road

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Networks that stretch westward from china

18
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Diffusion

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the spread of ideas from one culture to another