Ancient China Vocabulary I

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Across
  1. 2. China's first capital
  2. 5. appointed officials who are responsible for different areas of government
  3. 7. characters that stand of objects
  4. 9. the longest river in China and Asia and the third longest river in the world
  5. 11. characters that are joined by two or more pictographs used in Chinese writing
  6. 12. valuable cloth first made only in China
Down
  1. 1. series of rulers from the same family
  2. 3. Chinese philosopher and teacher whose beliefs greatly influenced China
  3. 4. nobles whose wealth came from the land they owned
  4. 6. second longest river in China that looks yellow because of the soil it carries
  5. 8. ancient trade route between China and Europe
  6. 10. extends about 1,400 miles across northern China that was built in the third century BC