Flashcards in chapter 6 vocab Deck (18):
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Jade
A hard gemstone
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Oracle
Is a prediction
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Lords
Or people of higher ranks
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Peasant
Or farmers with small farms
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Ethics
Or moral values
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Confucianism
The ideas of conflicts are known as Confucianism
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Daoism
Stressed living in harmony with the Dao the guiding force of all reality
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Legalism
The belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled
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Great wall
A barrier that linked earlier walls across China's northern frontier
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Sundial
A Sundial used the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day
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Seismograph
A Seismograph is a device that mesures the strength of an earthquake
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Acupuncture
Is the practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relive pain.
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Silk
A soft, light, highly valued fabrick
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Silk Road
This 4,000-mile long network of routes stretches westward from China across Asia deserts and mountains ranges, through the Middle East until it reached the Mediterranean Sea.
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Diffusion
The spread of ideas from one curlture to another
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Confucius
Became the most influential teacher in the Chinese history
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Laozi
Was the most famous Daoist teacher
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