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