Module 6 Vocabulary

a hard gemstone

• silk

• jade

• sundial

• oracle

a prediction

• silk

• peasants

• oracle

• sundial

people of high rank

• lords

• peasants

• jade

• kings

farmers with small farms

• lords

• ethics

• peasants

• legalism

the most influential teacher in Chinese History

• Confucius

• Legalism

• Laozi

• oracle

an early Chinese belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled

• Confucius

• philosophy

• diffusion

• Legalism

the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty

• King

• Shi Huang Di

• Confucius

• jade

a barrier across China's northern frontier

• sundial

• Great Wall

• isolation

• Silk Road

a device that uses the position of the sun to tell time

• acupunture

• sundial

• philosophy

• Great Wall

a device that measures the strength of an earthquake

• sundial

• diffusion

• seismograph

• silk