Module 6 Vocabulary

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 soft, light, high valued fabric

• silk

• jade

• cotton

• diffusion

the spread of ideas, goods, and technology from one culture to another

• Legalism

• Silk Road

• sundial

• diffusion

a network of trade routes between China and the Mediterranean Sea

• Shi Huang Di

• Silk Road

• seismograph

• Great Wall

the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge

• Legalism

• philosophy

• Confucius

• isolation

being separated from others

• isolation

• unification

• oracle

• Silk Road

the process of being united

• isolation

• oracle

• unification

• Legalism