Across
- 4. type of government where people elect leaders to make decisions for them
- 9. world's highest mountains
- 11. This year, Taylor Swift's birthday
- 16. ancient Roman delicacy
- 17. ruled over the heavens, imprisoned dragons
- 18. trade route that connected China to places west
- 20. how the ancient Chinese told the future
- 21. Spartacus was one
- 24. language spoken by the ancient Romans
- 25. animal that made ancient China's most precious material
- 28. wedge-shaped writing from ancient Mesopotamia
- 29. ancient Roman temple to all the gods
Down
- 1. people who bordered ancient China, and where
- 2. ancient Rome's greatest rival, now Tunisia
- 3. Roman tic-tac-toe
- 5. sequence of rulers from a single familiy
- 6. general term for a Chinese word
- 7. how to say "yellow" in Mandarin Chinese, first part of "Yellow River"
- 8. mountains ran down the Italian peninsula
- 10. China's longest river
- 12. Olympic medal type, important material in ancient China
- 13. bridge for water
- 14. desert in NW China
- 15. capital of Illinois
- 19. Crassus was one
- 22. highest mountains in Europe
- 23. elected dictator for life
- 26. capital of Canada
- 27. mythological symbol of China's rivers
- 28. ancient Roman amphitheatre