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18 Cards in this Set
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Jade
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A hard gemstone
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Oracle
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A prediction
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Lords
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People of high rank
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Peasants
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Farmers with small farms. People at the bottom of the order.
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Confucius
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The most influential teacher in Chinese history
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Ethics
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Moral values
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Confucianism
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The idea of Confucius
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Daoism
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Takes its name from DAO, which means 'the way'. Daoism stresses living in harmony with the Do, the guiding force of all reality.
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Laozi
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The most famous Daoist teacher
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Legalism
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The belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled.
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Shi Huangdi
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The Qin king Ying Zheng succeeded in unifying china. He gave himself the title Shi Huangdi, which means "first emperor".
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Great Wall
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A barrier that linked earlier walls across chinas northern frontier.
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Sundial
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Uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day.
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Seismograph
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A device that measures the strength of an earthquake.
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Acupuncture
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Practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain.
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Silk
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A soft, light, highly valued fabric
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Silk Road
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A 4,000 mile,long network of routes that stretched westward from chine across Asia's deserts and mountain ranges, the the Middle East until it reached the Mediterranean Sea.
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Diffusion
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The spread of idea from one culture to another.
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