Unit 5: Ancient China

2. the spreading of cultural traits, such as goods and ideas, from one culture to another, or within one culture
3. honoring of ancestors through rituals, such as offering food to the spirits of the dead
5. the dynasty that ruled China from about 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E., the period following the Qin dynasty
8. a power or law believed to be granted by the heavens
9. a stream or river that feeds into a larger stream, river, or lake
14. a person who works for a government
15. a piece of bone or shell heated and cracked by holy men to seek advice from a king’s ancestors
17. light, fertile soil that yields bountiful grain crops
18. to remove or suppress ideas considered harmful or dangerous
19. a strong metal alloy made from copper
22. A desert in Northwestern China; its name means "once you go in, you will not come out."
25. a stone-and-earth wall about 1,500 miles long, first built during the Qin dynasty to defend China’s northern boundary
28. The Dynasty that ruled from 1750 to 1040 B.C.E.
30. the first emperor to rule a united China, from 221 to 210 B.C.E.
31. a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes living in harmony with nature
33. a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes proper behavior
35. a network of roads along which traders traveled
36. also known as the Yellow River
38. a collection of separate tribes that roamed the grasslands north of present-day China.

1. a trade route that stretched for more than 4,000 miles across Asia; connected Han and Roman empires.
4. the differences between people or things, when they are compared
6. a part or section of a country
7. a large, complex organization that functions under a given set of rules and conditions
10. able to live forever
11. to make the same, often by government mandate.
12. the Daoist concept of opposing forces of nature
13. someone who does physical work (i.e construction)
16. this area is often called the "Roof of the World" because its average elevation of 13,500 feet
20. a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes strict obedience to laws
21. location where ruins were found from the Shang dynasty, China's first civilization
23. a system of government based on landowners and tenants
24. a place, usually in a desert, where water can be found
26. the fourth largest country in the world, after Russia, Canada, and the United States.
27. Overthrew the Shang dynasty in 1045 B.C.E.
29. the average weather conditions at a particular place
32. to set apart from other people or things
34. a region in the Huang He River valley, where Chinese civilization began
37. desert that covers part of China and present-day Mongolia