Chapter 6

Question 1

Jade

Answer 1

a hard gemstone

Question 2

Oracle

Answer 2

a prediction

Question 3

Lords

Answer 3

people of high ranks

Question 4

peasants

Answer 4

farmers with small farmers

Question 5

confucius

Answer 5

the most influential teacher in Chinese history

Question 6

daoism

Answer 6

living in harmony with Dao,
the guiding force of all reality

Question 7

laozi

Answer 7

the most famous Daoist teacher

Question 8

legalism

Answer 8

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

Question 9

shi Huangdi

Answer 9

the man who unified China and created a strong government with strict laws and harsh punishments

Question 10

great wall

Answer 10

a barrier that linked earlier walls across China’s northern front

Question 11

sundial

Answer 11

use’s the positions of the sun’s shadow to tell what time of day it is

Question 12

seismograph

Answer 12

a device that measures the strength of an earthquake

Question 13

acupuncture

Answer 13

the science of inserting fine needles into specific place’s in one’s skin to cure disease or relieve pain

Question 14

silk

Answer 14

a soft, light, highly valued fabric

Question 15

silk road

Answer 15

the 4,000-mile long network of routes stretched westward from China across Asia’s deserts and mountain ranges, through the middle east, until it reached the Mediterranean sea

Question 16

diffusion

Answer 16

the spread of ideas from one culture to the other

Question 17

vary

Answer 17

differ in size, amount, degree, or nature from something else of the same general class

Question 18

structure

Answer 18

the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex

Question 19

innovation

Answer 19

the action or process of innovating.

Question 20

procedure

Answer 20

an established or official way of doing something.