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china vocab
Question | Answer |
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oracle bones | a anchent script |
ethics | moral values |
confucianism | the ideas of confucius |
confucius | most influential teacher in chinese history |
daoism | stressed liveng in harmony with the dao the guiding force of reality |
legalism | the blief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controled |
shi huangdi | the first ruler of china |
standerdize | to set rules that make things more simeler |
terracotta warriors | collection of teracota sculptures depicting the armies of que shi huang |
diffusion of buddhism | buddhism spread through china when scholars translated buddist texts into chinese |
silk road | 4000 mile long trade network thet stretched from china to the mediterranean sea |
acupuncture | inserting fine needels into the skin for medical care |
seismograph | an instrument that gave limited details about earthquakes |
mandate to hevan | the idea that there could only be one lwgitiment ruler if china at a time and that thes rule had the blesing of the gods |
emporor | imperial title given to a leader of ancient china |
grate wall | a wall that protected the empires from raids and inuaisens by various nomatic groups |
calligraphy | style of writing used by the anchient chinese used around 2500 characters |
warlords | military rulers of small states who claim loyalty to the king |
warring states period | an era of chaos where brutal and destructive fighting took place |
ancestor worship | practices of honering the spirits of the dead |
filial piety | devotion of children to their parents. children were expected to respect and obey elders |
censorship | controling free thinking deciding to ban ideas that leaders find dangerous or offensive |