Ancient China Vocab

Question 1

Oracle Bones

Answer 1

Oracle bones is just a prediction

Question 2

Jade

Answer 2

a hard gemstone

Question 3

Lords

Answer 3

people of high rank

Question 4

Peasants

Answer 4

or farmers with small farms

Question 5

Confucius

Answer 5

a master teacher

Question 6

Ethics

Answer 6

moral values

Question 7

Confucianism

Answer 7

focuses on mortality, family, society, and government

Question 8

Daosim

Answer 8

stressed living in harmony with the Dao, the guiding forces of all reality

Question 9

Laozi

Answer 9

the most famous, Daoist teacher.

Question 10

Legalism

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Shi Huangdi

Answer 11

Means first emperor.

Question 12

Great Wall

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Sundial

Answer 13

Uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day

Question 14

Seismorgraph

Answer 14

A device that measures earthquakes

Question 15

Acpuncture

Answer 15

Is the practice of inserting fine needles through the skinat specific points to cure disease or releive pain.

Question 16

Silk

Answer 16

A soft, light, highly valued fabric

Question 17

Silk Road

Answer 17

4000 mile long network of routes stretched westward from china

Question 18

Diffusion

Answer 18

The spread of ideas from one culture to another