Vocab #1
Important philosopher and teacher in Chinese history.
What is Confucius?
A method of inserting needles into the skin to stop pain and cure disease
What is Acupuncture?
A gemstone often used to make jewelry and art.
What is Jade?
A wall built a long the northern border to help defend China?
What is the Great Wall?
A set of beliefs about how to live.
What is Philosophy?
The teachings and ideas of Confucius.
What is Confucianism?
China's main export along the Silk road and made from silkworms.
What is Silk?
A group of trade routes that connected China to other parts of Asia and the west.
What is the Silk Road?
The right to rule.
What is Mandate of Heaven?
Respect for one's parents and elders.
What is Filial Piety?
a dust-like material that forms soil and makes the Huang He River Yellow.
What is Loess?
The first emperor and leader who unified China.
What is Shi Huangdi?
a group of rulers from the same family.
What is Dynasty?
What is a Seismograph?
What is the Chang Jiang River?
Belief that people must be controlled with a strong leader and legal system.
What is Legalism?
China's earliest written records that shared predictions for the future.
What is Oracle Bones?
A social system in which lords governed land farmed by peasants.
Feudalism
Chinese river that often floods; also known as the Yellow River.
What is the Huang He River?
Founder of Daoism.
What is Laozi?
A harsh desert that covers much of Northern China.
What is the Gobi Desert?