Ancient China Vocabulary

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