Vocabulary - Ancient China

Question 1

Acupuncture

Answer 1

Method of inserting needles into the skin to stop pain and cure disease

Question 2

Confucianism

Answer 2

Belief system promoting decency and respect

Question 3

Daoism

Answer 3

Belief system promoting harmony with nature

Question 4

Dynasty

Answer 4

Group of rulers from the same family

Question 5

Feudalism

Answer 5

Social system in which lords governed land farmed by peasants

Question 6

Filial Piety

Answer 6

Respect for one’s parents and elders

Question 7

Jade

Answer 7

Gemstone often used to make jewelry and art

Question 8

Legalism

Answer 8

Belief that people must be controlled by a strong leader and law system

Question 9

Mandate of Heaven

Answer 9

Right to rule China that leaders claimed to receive from the gods

Question 10

Oracle Bones

Answer 10

China’s earliest written records that often told predictions for the future

Question 11

Philosophy

Answer 11

Set of beliefs about how to live

Question 12

Silk

Answer 12

Material made from a type of insect that was used to produce clothing and became China’s main trading export

Question 13

Silk Road

Answer 13

Group of trade routes that connected China to other parts of Asia, Africa, and Europe