Ancient China Vocab

Question 1

What are Oracle Bones?

Answer 1

Oracle bones are a Prediction Method used in Ancient China

Question 2

What is Jade?

Answer 2

Jade is a hard gemstone, that was very valuable in Ancient China.

Question 3

What is a Lord?

Answer 3

Lords are people with a high rank

Question 4

What is the Definition of Peasant

Answer 4

Farmers with small farms.

Question 5

Who was Confucius?

Answer 5

Confucius was a Master teacher.

Question 6

Ethics

Answer 6

Moral values

Question 7

Confucianism

Answer 7

The ideas of Confucius.

Question 8

Daosim

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Laozi

Answer 9

Was the most famous Daoist teacher.

Question 10

Legalism

Answer 10

The belief that people are bad by nature and need to be controlled.

Question 11

Shi Huangdi

Answer 11

Means First emperor, the emperor named Shi Huangdi was a very brutal emperor.

Question 12

Great Wall

Answer 12

A barrier that linked earlier walls across China’s northern frontier

Question 13

Sundial

Answer 13

A sundial uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time.

Question 14

Seismograph

Answer 14

Is a device that measures the strength of an earthquake

Question 15

Acpuncture

Answer 15

Is the practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain.

Question 16

Silk

Answer 16

A soft, light, highly valued fabric

Question 17

Silk Road

Answer 17

This 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 18

Diffusion

Answer 18

The spread of ideas from one culture to another.