Legacy Vocabulary
Geography
Philosophies I
Philosophies II
Culture
Potpourri I
Potpourri II
100
a large land mass similar to, but smaller than, a continent
What is a "subcontinent?"
100
The ocean to the East of China.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
The founder of Confucianism.
Who was Kung Fu Tzu?
Will also accept: Who was Confucius?
100
The founder of Taoism.
Who was Lao Tzu?
100
A rule by generations of one family.
What is a dynasty?
100
A Spongebob Squarepants character named after a common beach discomfort
Who is Sandy Cheeks?
100
The family of plants that includes peantus.
What are legumes?
200
the flat land bordering a river
What is a "floodplain?"
200
Fertile mud left behind by floods, similar to silt.
What is a loess?
200
The study of basic truths of the Universe.
What is Philosophy?
200
The perfecter of Legalism.
Who was Han Fei?
200
The first ruling dynasty in Ancient China.
Who were the Shang?
200
A popular pastry created by frying dough mixed with apples and cinnamon and dipped in batter.
What is an apple fritter?
200
Purple.
What is Collette Conway's favorite color?
300
money paid to a conquering ruler for protection
What is "tribute?"
300
The tallest mountains in the world, found to the Southwest of China.
What are the Himalayas?
300
A philosophy that believes respecting relationships is one of the keys to order.
What is Confucianism?
300
What does the yin yang symbol look like?
300
A period of great unrest in Ancient China.
What was the Warring States Period?
300
What does Ancient Debris look like?
300
Located at the mouth of the Great River on the Eastern Ocean coast, this city is the seat of Narnia's Kings and Queens.
What is Cair Paravel?
400
According to Buddhists, the path out of suffering
What are the 4 Noble Truths?
400
The Gobi and the Talamankan
What are the deserts to the north of China?
400
A philosophy that believes living in harmony with nature is the key to the good life.
What is Taoism?
400
Snitch snitch snitch. Snitch all the time.
What advice did Legalism give?
400
The idea that the gods approved of the ruler in China; if the gods no longer approved, the ruler would lose power
What was the Mandate of Heaven?
400
A classic hike---perhaps the classic hike of New England---in which the hiker traverses the Presidential Range of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, gaining sweeping views of the Great Gulf Wilderness and 10,000 feet of elevation gain across its 19-23 mile length.
What is the Presidential Traverse?
400
Roughly the same as 52,631,578 McDonalds McDoubles.
How many calories are in a a gram of Plutonium 239?
500
a city built by design
What is a planned city?
500
In English, the Yellow River.
(Give the Chinese)
What is the Huanghe?
500
The Tao Te Ching.
What was the key book of Taoism, or the book in which Lao Tzu's teachings were recorded?
500
These were how Confucians chose the best people for government.
What were administrative tests?
500
The dynasty that ended the Warring States Period.
Who were the Qin?
500
An improvised call sign used by the team of Rebel Alliance soldiers and specialists—led by Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor—who embark on a suicide mission to steal the Death Star plans during the Battle of Scarif.
What is Rogue One?
500
Ash nazg durbatulûk,
ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakatulûk,
agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
What was the poem inscribed on the One Ring by the Dark Lord Sauron---the Ring into which he poured his power and his malice---in the fiery belly of Orodruin, the Mountain of Doom, in the Land of Mordor during the First Age of the Earth?