chapter 6

Question 1

jade

Answer 1

is a hard gemstone

Question 2

oracles

Answer 2

are predictions

Question 3

lords

Answer 3

are people of high rank

Question 4

peasants

Answer 4

are farmers with small farms

Question 5

Confucius

Answer 5

is the most influential teacher in Chines history

Question 6

ethics

Answer 6

are moral values

Question 7

Confucianism

Answer 7

is the ideas of Confucius

Question 8

Daoism

Answer 8

is the guiding force of all reality

Question 9

Laozi

Answer 9

is the most famous Daoist teacher

Question 10

Legalism

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Shi Huangdi

Answer 11

means the first emperor

Question 12

The Great Wall

Answer 12

is a barrier that linked earlier walls across China’s northern frontier

Question 13

a sundial

Answer 13

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

Question 14

a seismograph

Answer 14

is the device that measures the strength of an earthquake

Question 15

acupuncture

Answer 15

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

Question 16

silk

Answer 16

is a soft, light, highly valued fabric

Question 17

The Silk Road

Answer 17

is a 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

is the spread of ideas from one culture to another