China VOCB Flashcards
a oracle bone is
a prediction
whats Jade
a hard gemstone
What is lords
people of high rank
whats a peasant
Farmers with small farms
who is confucius
Masterkong or a master teacher
Ethics
Moral values or good or evil
Confucianism
The ideas of confucius
Daoism
easy going
Laozi
Most famous daoist teacher
Legalism
The belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled
Shi Huangdi
the first emperor
Great Wall
A barrier that liked earlier walls across China’s northern frontier
Sundial
Uses the position of the shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day
seismorgraph
A device that measures the strength of an earthquake
Acupuncture
The practice in inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease of relieve pain.
Silk
A soft light highly valued fabric
Silk road
A 4000 mile long network of routes that stretched westward across Asia’s desert and mountain ranges through the middle east until it reached the Mediterranean Sea
Diffusion
The spread of ideas from one culture to another
