Ancient China

3. / Europeans learning to make silk is an example of cultural __________.
4. / The natural vegetation of prairie grass provided food for horses and sheep in the _____________ Plain.
6. / This product is valuable in the West because they were the only ones who knew how to make it.
7. / Traders form long caravans to _______ each other from danger.
9. / The Chinese wrote on silk and _________ before they invented paper.
10. / The advances in working with _______ helped develop the new technology in Han warfare.
11. / The _______ size of China made it difficult to govern as a unified state.
14. / The Chinese grew _______ in the Chang Jiang Basins because it has the warm and wet climate required for the crop.
16. / Several groups of invaders from the Northeastern Plan traveled to Inner China by _________.
17. / Barren ________ protected Inner China from invasion from the northwest
19. / Huang He most influenced settlement near its banks by ____________ the soil to attract communities of farmers.
20. / Compared to the Qin dynasty, the _________ dynasty lasted much longer.
22. / Which tool did ancient Chinese scribes use for writing?
23. / Which Han invention would the Chinese use to send messages and frighten enemies at night?
24. / The chain pump brings _______ to the and helps increase the harvest.

1. / Travelers carried ________ beliefs from India to China.
2. / Oases are closer on this route of the Silk Road.
5. / Which shape best illustrates the structure of the Han bureaucracy?
8. / The Turfan Depression and the Chang Jiang Basins are both _______ than other parts of China.
12. / What was one of the most important Roman products that trade along the Silk Road brought to China?
13. / What animal carried goods on the Western Silk Road?
15. / The Han emperors changed the way China was ruled from Legalism to __________ ideals.
18. / At the time of the Han dynasty, which people particularly threatened China from the north?
21. / Used by the Chinese to rebalance the forces of yin and yang.