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