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What are peasants?
Lords are people of high rank in early China. Another social group from early China were farmers with small farms. They were called
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What is the Shang Dynasty?
The first dynasty that we have clear evidence of. Came up with China's first writing system which they wrote on bones and turtle shells.
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Who is Confucius?
His teachings focused on restoring family order and social harmony.
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What is accupunture?
During the Han Dynasty the Chinese people worked to improved medicine. During this time they established the practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain
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What is the Silk Road?
This 4,000 mile-long network of routes stretched westward from China across Asia's deserts and mountains ranges, through the middle east, until it reached the Mediterranean Sea.
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What is ethics?
Confucius taught that people should return to moral values or
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What is the Qin Dynasty?
Dynasty led by Shi Huangdi. The emperor in is dynasty used Legalism to strictly control his people.
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What is Daoism?
This philosophy stressed the importance of living in harmony with nature and not interfering with others.
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What is the sundial?
This innovation uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day
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What is a caravan?
Groups of traveling merchants that traveled on the network of trade routes in Asia
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What is the Great Wall?
This barrier along China's northern frontier kept out invaders
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What is the Zhou Dynasty?
This dynasty began when they overthrew the Shang rulers. It ended with the Period of Warring States.
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What is Legalism?
This philosophy said that people were bad by nature and needed to be strictly controlled.
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What is the Great Wall of China?
There were many achievements during the Qin Dynasty. They included a network of roads and canals, an irrigation system that is still used today and this barrier to keep out invaders from the north
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What is silk?
China's leaders learned that they could trade this soft, light, highly valued fabric for horses and other products they wanted
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What is silk?
This fabric is soft and light and became very valuable in China as a trade item
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What is the Han Dynasty?
This dynasty began when a peasant named Liu Bang led a revolution and became emperor. This dynasty abolished Legalism and ruled according to the ideas of Confucianism.
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Who is Confucius?
He said that leaders should lead by example and that people should be respectful and loyal to their families
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What is the seismograph?
Han scholars invented this device to measure the strength of earth quakes. Han emperors were very interested in the movement of the earth.
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What is Central Asia?
Chinese traders did not travel the entire 4,000 miles of the Silk Road. Most of them sold their goods to other traders in this region. Those traders then took the goods the rest of the way
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What is diffusion?
The spread of ideas, goods and technology from one culture to another is known as
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Who is Qin Shi Huangdi?
Although the Qin dynasty did not last long, it accomplished a great deal because of the harsh treatment and of its people. The cruel ruler of the Qin Dynasty was
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Who is Laozi?
He founded Daoism and it is said that when he was born he was already an old man
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What is the wheelbarrow?
Farmers in China invented the iron plow and this single-wheeled cart to increase farm production
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What is Buddhism?
When Chinese people came into contact with other civilizations they exchanged ideas along with trade goods. Among these ideas was a new religion that spread from India called
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