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  1. 4. government developed in china that was a combination of philosophy and mystical religion
  2. 5. knee-length tunic developed during Shang dynasty
  3. 9. court astronomer Zhang Heng invented this during the Han dynasty
  4. 12. Maintained sharply defined social structure
  5. 13. people group that inhabited the mountainous region of western South America
  6. 15. who oversaw most African tribes
  7. 16. system of writing using agreed upon symbols illustrating objects they knew
  8. 18. during the Han Dynasty the military used paper ___ as signals
  9. 19. Religion that was begun by Siddharta Gautama and is an offshoot of Hinduism
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  1. 1. Name meaning enlightened one
  2. 2. a tomb containing some 8,000 terra-cotta figures represent a real what?
  3. 3. A religion that has a blend of Aryan beliefs and ideas of the people they conquered
  4. 6. The best known philosopher in China
  5. 7. word that was used by the Greeks to describe people who spoke different languages and had different cultural ways
  6. 8. Chinese description of this dated from 1st century BC
  7. 9. the main trade route between Asia and Europe became known as ____ road
  8. 10. this culture followed precise calendars and used numbering system that used zero
  9. 11. Mauryan leader who adopted Buddhism
  10. 14. strict activist government with a ruler with absolute power
  11. 17. the Chinese developed these with a device with beads on rods