Chapter 6 Vocab Flashcards
(18 cards)
Jade
A Hard Gemstone
Oracle
A Prediction
Lords
People Of high rank
Peasants
Farmers With Small Farms
Confucius
A Teacher
Ethics
Moral Values
Confucianism
The Ideas Of Confucius are known as Confucianism
Daoism
Stressed living in harmony with the Dao, the guiding force of all reality
Laozi
A famous teacher
Legalism
The belief that people were bad and needed to be controlled
Shi Huangdi
Means First Emperor
Great Wall
A barrier that linked earlier walls across China’s northern frontier
Sundial
A position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day
Seismograph
Is a device that measures the strength of an earthquake
Acupuncture
the practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain
Silk
A soft, light, highly valued fabric
Silk Road
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
Diffusion
The spread of ideas from one culture to another