1. Chapter 6 Ancient China
Key Terms and People

2. jade
A hard gemstone

3. oracle
A prediction

4. lords
People of high rank

5. peasants
Farmers with small farms

6. ethics
Moral values

7. Confucianism
An influenced by Chinese teacher Confucius. Believed that people needed to return to moral values and proper conduct. Confucianism refers to the teachings of Confucius

8. Confucius
Chinese teacher founded Confucianism. Believed that people needed to return to moral values and proper conduct.

9. Daosim/Taoism
Stressed living in harmony with the Dao or “the way” , the guiding force of all reality.
Founded by Laozi

10. silk
A soft, light, highly valued fabric

11. Silk road
4,000 mile long network of trade routes stretched westward from china across Asia’s deserts and mountain ranges through the Middle East until it reached the Mediterranean Sea

12. Laozi
Teacher of Daosim

13. legalism
The belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled

14. Shi Huangdi Legalist follower. Emperor of the Qin Dynasty.
Created a strong government
Unified china by enforcing:
-Standard writing system
-same money throughout china
Improved irrigation and farming

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

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

17. seismograph
A device that measures the strength of earthquakes

18. acupuncture
The practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve

19. diffusion
The spread of ideas from one culture to another