Ancient China

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Across
  1. 2. Conquered the Shang. Ruled for almost 1000 years
  2. 3. China's longest river
  3. 4. a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source
  4. 5. founder of the Han dynasty
  5. 6. statues that represented Shi Huangdi's real army, protected him in the afterlife
  6. 8. dry
  7. 9. First civilization in China. Made good bronze work and created China's first writing system
  8. 12. Chinese philosopher and teacher; his beliefs,known as Confucianism greatly influenced Chinese life
  9. 13. the Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established the first centralized imperial government and built much of the Great Wall
  10. 14. yellow-brown soil
  11. 15. Important crop and part of Chinese climate
  12. 17. aka Yellow River. Muddiest river in the world and caused many deaths
Down
  1. 1. a wall to defend China from barbarians from the North
  2. 7. warm, wet
  3. 10. imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy
  4. 11. An ancient trade route between Europe and China
  5. 16. A valuable cloth first made in China