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-Silk Road

A) A rammed-earth fortification built along the northern border of China during the reign of the First Emperor.
B) The ancient texts recovered during the Han Dynasty that Confucian scholars treated as sacred scriptures.
C) A comprehensive history of China written by Sima Qian.
D) The trade routes across Central Asia linking China to western Eurasia.
E) An arrangement first established during the Han Dynasty to regulate contact with foreign powers. States and tribes beyond its borders sent envoys bearing gifts and received gifts in return.
F) Castrated males who played an important role as palace servants.
G) The period after the fall of the Han Dynasty, when China was politically divided.
H) A waterway, built during the Sui Dynasty, that connected the Yellow and Yangzi Rivers. It was notable for strengthening China's internal cohesion and economic development.
I) A school of Buddhism that taught that by calling on the Buddha Amitabha, one could achieve rebirth in Amitabha's paradise.
J) A school of Buddhism (known in Japan as Zen) that rejected the authority of the sutras and claimed the superiority of mind-to-mind transmission of Buddhist truths.
K) The Way of the Gods, Japan's native religion.
L) Japan's capital and first true city; it was established in 710 and modeled on the Tang capital of Chang'an.