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Review VocabChina

Chapter 7

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What is a hard gemstone often used in Chinese jewelry?

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Jade

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What is a soft, light, and highly valued fabric developed in China? It is in a title of one of the stories in our Anthology where people traded along its route.

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Silk

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Who are men of high rank who owned land but owed loyalty to the king? Their wives might have been called ladies.

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Lords

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Who was the ruler of China who united China for the first time? He built roads and canals and began the Great Wall of China. He also imposed a standard system of laws, money, weights, and writing system in China.

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Shi Huangdi

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What is a device that uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day?

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Sundial

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What a prediction by a wise person, or a person who makes prediction? In China, they used bones.

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Oracle

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What is a network of trade routes that stretched across Asia from China to the Mediterranean Sea? It was the title of one of our stories our Anthology.

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Silk Road

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Who were the farmers with small farms called?

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Peasants

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What was the barrier made of walls across China’s northern frontier?

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Great Wall

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What is a device that measures the strength of an earthquake?

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Seismograph

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What is the spread of ideas from one culture to another culture?

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Diffusion

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Who was the Chinese philosopher who was the most influential teacher in Chinese history. His teaching is named after him, focuses on morality, family, society, and government.

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Confucius

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What is the Chinese practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain?

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Acupuncture

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What are moral values, principles, or a moral code?

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Ethics

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What is a philosophy based on the ideas of Confucius that focuses on morality, family order, social harmony, and government?

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Confucianism

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What is the philosophy that developed in China and stressed the belief that one should live in harmony with the Dao, the guiding force of all reality?

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Daoism

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Who was the Chinese philosopher who was the most famous Daoist teacher. He is credited with writing: The Way and Its Power, a Daoism’s basic text.

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Laozi

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What is the Chinese belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled?

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Legalism