Ancient China Vocabulary
Across
- 2. a soft,light, highly valued fabric
- 4. a device that measures the strength of an earthquake
- 5. a hard gemstone
- 7. an idea that stressed living in harmony with the Dao the guiding force of all reality
- 12. the ideas of Confucius
- 13. a 4,000 mile long network of routes that stretched westward from China across Asia's deserts and mountains through the Middle East, until it reached the Mediterranean Sea
- 15. the belief that people are bad by nature and needed to be controlled
Down
- 1. a barrier that linked earlier walls across China's northern frontier
- 2. was a legalist who became emperor and created a strong government with strict laws and harsh punishments
- 3. the spread of ideas from one culture to another
- 6. moral values
- 8. a prediction
- 9. uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day
- 10. farmers with small farms
- 11. people of high rank
- 14. the practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to cure disease or relieve pain
- 15. the most famous teacher of Daoism