| A | B |
|---|
| father | head of the family with absolute power |
| Silk Road | trade network which connected China to other countries |
| jade | a hard gemstone often found in burial sites along with the wealthy |
| oracle | a prediction |
| lords | people of high rank |
| peasants | farmers with small farms |
| Confucius | most influential teacher in Chinese history |
| ethics | moral values |
| Confuciansim | ideas of Confucius (for China to return to ideas and a time when people knew their proper roles in society |
| Daoism | stressed living in harmony with the Dao, the guiding force of all reality |
| Legalism | the belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled |
| Great Wall | barrier that linked earlier walls across China's northern frontier; built around 600 BC |
| sundial | uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day |
| sesmograph | a device that measures the strength of an earthquake |
| acupuncture | the practice of inserting a fine needle through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain |
| paper | everyday item used since its invention during the Han dynasty |
