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| Acupuncture | Chinese practice of relieving pain and treating disease by inserting needles into the body. |
| Confucius | A great Chinese teacher and philosopher born about 551 B.C.E who developed a new moral code as a basis for a peaceful, orderly society. |
| Diaspora | The breaking up and scattering of a people. |
| Dynasty | Series of rules from the same family. |
| Great Wall | A system of fortified walls with a roadway along the top, first constructed as a defense for China against nomads from the north. |
| Hellenistic | Characteristic of Greek culture after the time of Alexander the Great. |
| Helot | Slave; Helos was a Greek town whose inhabitants were enslaved by Sparta. |
| Homer | A blind Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey around 700 B.C.E. |
| Nebuchadnezzar | Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon and created the famous Hanging Gardens. |
| Oligarghy | A government in which a small group exercises control. |
| Mandarin | A senior official of Imperial China. |
| Mandate | Permission to rule. |
| Philosopher | A person who offers views of theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields. |
