Ancient China Puzzle

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Across
  1. 5. a network of roads along which traders traveled
  2. 7. a person who works for a government
  3. 10. a system of government based on landowners and tenants
  4. 11. a region in the Huang He River valley, where Chinese civilization began
  5. 14. honoring of ancestors through rituals, such as offering food and wine to the spirits of the dead
  6. 16. one of the first Chinese dynasties, ruled from 1750 to 1040 B.C.E.
  7. 17. flowing from the highlands of Tibet in western China generally eastward, 3,395 miles long
  8. 19. a power or law believed to be granted by the heavens
  9. 20. a river flowing from western China into the Bohai Gulf, 2,800 miles long
Down
  1. 1. a line of rulers in China that ruled after the Shang dynasty
  2. 2. a network of trade routes that stretched for more than four thousand miles across Asia
  3. 3. a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes proper behavior
  4. 4. a piece of bone or shell heated and cracked by holy men to seek advice from a king’s ancestors
  5. 6. the dynasty that ruled China from about 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E., the period following the Qin dynasty
  6. 8. the Daoist concept of opposing forces of nature
  7. 9. a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes living in harmony with nature
  8. 12. location where ruins were found from the Shang dynasty, China's first civilization
  9. 13. the first emperor to rule a united China, from 221 to 210 B.C.E.
  10. 15. a stone-and-earth wall about 1,500 miles long, first built during the Qin dynasty to defend China’s northern boundary
  11. 18. a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes strict obedience to laws