The Silk Road

3. the ____ class was at the bottom of the social hierarchy during the Han era
5. a prediction
7. the belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled
8. something that measures the strength of an earthquake
11. the author of The Analects and the Book of Changes
12. the river that is sometimes called "China's Sorrow"
13. ___ teaches that people should live in harmony with nature
14. Shi ____ , the most powerful emperor of the Qin dynasty
17. the practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points
18. the emperor responsible for the beginning of the silk road
19. also known as the Yangzi River

1. the material used to make the soldier statues surrounding a famous tomb near Xi'an
2. a device that uses the position of shadows to tell the time of day
4. the first dynasty of ancient China
6. the mountain range that separates northern from southern china
9. the most famous Daoist teacher
10. __ style, a kind of verse that combines prose and poetry to create long works of literature
15. The ____ was built to protect China from nomads who invaded from the north
16. moral values