Ancient China

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Across
  1. 1. China shares the Himalaya Mountains with this country
  2. 7. China's Golden Age dynasty
  3. 8. used to make tools and weapons
  4. 11. The ______ States Period defines the last 250 years of the Zhou Dynasty
  5. 12. Gobi Desert, Himalaya Mountains, Tibetan Plateau, Pacific Ocean
  6. 14. Animal used to help cross the desert land of the Silk Road
  7. 16. A material made from the cocoons of special worms
  8. 18. Read by Chinese diviners (priests)
  9. 21. China's first dynasty
  10. 22. Yangtze and Yellow
  11. 23. This wonder of the world was built as protection from the Mongols to the north of China
  12. 24. The right of an emperor to rule China was called the ____ of Heaven
Down
  1. 1. to be "cut off"
  2. 2. Chinese religious leader famous for his philosophical sayings
  3. 3. The balancing forces of Taoism are known as the Yin and ____
  4. 4. Ancient China was ruled by a series of families called ______
  5. 5. Qin practiced this when he ordered Confucian books to be burned
  6. 6. This windy day toy was first used by the Chinese army to scare enemies
  7. 9. Emperor Qin's life size eternal army was made of this
  8. 10. China's location
  9. 13. A philosophy focusing on strict laws and punishments
  10. 15. Chinese invention that helped with navigating ships and making maps
  11. 17. Huang He fertilizer
  12. 19. Han civil servants would take an _______ to earn a job
  13. 20. A famous trade route from China to Eastern Europe