China Vocabulary

The barrier linking walls across China's northern border

• Himalayas

• Great Wall

• Fortification

• Pyramids

The practice of inserting needles through the skin to relieve pain

• Acupuncture

• sundial

• shots

• seismograph

The philosophy which stressed living in harmony and leading a simple, natural life

• Confucianism

• Hinduism

• Legalism

• Daoism

A device that measures the strength of an earthquake

• Sundial

• Silk

• Seismograph

• Acupuncture

The ideas of Confucius which taught about ethics and family relationships

• Confuscianism

• Buddhism

• Daoism

• Legalism

The spread of ideas from one culture to another

• Oracle Bones

• Analects

• Religion

• Cultural Diffusion

People of higher rank who were land owners

• Lords

• Peasants

• Farmers

• Soldiers

Moral values

• Ten Commandments

• Analects

• Ethics

• Virtues

A book compiling the works and teachings of Confucius

• Confuscianism

• Mandate of Heaven

• Old Testament

• Analects

A soft, light, highly valued fabric

• Polyester

• Cotton

• Silk

• Wool