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| jade | a hard gem stone often used in jewelery |
| oracle | a prediction by a wise person,or a person who makes a prediction |
| lords | a person of high rank who owned land but owed loyalty to his king |
| peasants | a farmer with a small farm |
| Confucius | to restore order to China.Confucius became the most influential teacher |
| ethics | moral values |
| Confucianism | a philosophy based on the ideas of Confucius that focuses on morality,family order,social harmony,and government |
| Daoism | a philosophy that developed in China and stressed the belief that one should live in harmony with the Dao,the guiding force of all reality |
| Laozi | was the most famous Daoist teacher |
| Legalism | the Chinese belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled |
| Shi Huangdi | emperor,wanted all Chinise people to do things the same way |
| Great Wall | a barrier made of walls across China's northern frontier |
| sundial | a device that uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day |
| seismograph | a device that measures the strength of an earthquake |
| acupuncture | the Chinese practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain |
| silk | a soft,light,and highly valued valued fabric developed in China |
| Silk Road | a network of trade routes that stretched across Asia from China to the Mediterranean Sea |
| diffusion | the spread of ideas from one culture to another |
