1. Ancient China Vocabulary

2. Oracle
A prediction

3. Lords
People of high rank

4. Peasants
Farmers with small farms

5. Confucianism
The ideas of Confucius; ethics (moral values) important

6. Daoism
Stressed living in harmony with the Dao, the guiding force of all reality

7. Legalism
The belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled

8. Great Wall of China
Barrier across China’s northern frontier; 1,500 miles long

9. Seismograph
A device that measures the strength of an earthquake

10. “Silk Road”
4,000 mile long network of trade routes between China and the Mediterranean Sea (Roman Empire)

11. Diffusion
The spread of ideas from one culture to another