Ancient China Puzzle

5. a network of roads along which traders traveled
7. a person who works for a government
10. a system of government based on landowners and tenants
11. a region in the Huang He River valley, where Chinese civilization began
14. honoring of ancestors through rituals, such as offering food and wine to the spirits of the dead
16. one of the first Chinese dynasties, ruled from 1750 to 1040 B.C.E.
17. flowing from the highlands of Tibet in western China generally eastward, 3,395 miles long
19. a power or law believed to be granted by the heavens
20. a river flowing from western China into the Bohai Gulf, 2,800 miles long

1. a line of rulers in China that ruled after the Shang dynasty
2. a network of trade routes that stretched for more than four thousand miles across Asia
3. a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes proper behavior
4. a piece of bone or shell heated and cracked by holy men to seek advice from a king’s ancestors
6. the dynasty that ruled China from about 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E., the period following the Qin dynasty
8. the Daoist concept of opposing forces of nature
9. a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes living in harmony with nature
12. location where ruins were found from the Shang dynasty, China's first civilization
13. the first emperor to rule a united China, from 221 to 210 B.C.E.
15. a stone-and-earth wall about 1,500 miles long, first built during the Qin dynasty to defend China’s northern boundary
18. a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes strict obedience to laws