Ancient China Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. a valuable cloth, originally made only in China from threads spun by caterpillars called silkworms
  2. 2. the type of money used by a group or a nation
  3. 5. the founder of the Han dynasty
  4. 7. the group of people whose job it is to carry out the work of the government
  5. 9. a system of beliefs and values
  6. 10. an ancient trade route between China and Europe
  7. 13. closely related people of several generations
Down
  1. 1. founder of the Qin dynasty and China's first emperor
  2. 3. Chinese philosopher and teacher whose beliefs had a great influence on Chinese life
  3. 4. a local leader of an armed group
  4. 6. a Chinese scholar, astronomer, and historian; author of the most important history of ancient China, Historical Records
  5. 8. yellow-brown soil
  6. 11. protective wall that controls or holds back water
  7. 12. Chinese emperor who brought the Han dynasty to its greatest strength