China Vocabulary Flashcards
Oracle Bones
Way of redictio
Jade
A stone
Lords
people of high rank
Peasents
farmers with small farms
Confucius
master teacher
Ethics
moral values
Confucianism
ideas of confucius
Daosim
stressed living in harmony with the Dao, the guiding force of all reality
Laozi
most famous Daoist teacher
Legalism
The belief that people were bad by nature needed
to be controlled
Shi Huangdi
first emperor
Great Wall
a barrier that linked earlier walls across China’s northern frontier
Sundial
Uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day
Seismograph
device that measures the strength of an earthquake
Acupuncture
practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure diseases or relieve pain