Ancient China Puzzle

4. a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes living in harmony with nature
5. location where ruins were found from the Shang dynasty, China's first civilization
6. the Daoist concept of opposing forces of nature
7. a person who works for a government
10. a line of rulers in China that ruled after the Shang dynasty
13. a region in the Huang He River valley, where Chinese civilization began
14. flowing from the highlands of Tibet in western China generally eastward, 3,395 miles long
17. a river flowing from western China into the Bohai Gulf, 2,800 miles long
18. one of the first Chinese dynasties, ruled from 1750 to 1040 B.C.E.
19. a piece of bone or shell heated and cracked by holy men to seek advice from a king’s ancestors
20. the first emperor to rule a united China, from 221 to 210 B.C.E.

1. a system of government based on landowners and tenants
2. a stone-and-earth wall about 1,500 miles long, first built during the Qin dynasty to defend China’s northern boundary
3. a power or law believed to be granted by the heavens
8. honoring of ancestors through rituals, such as offering food and wine to the spirits of the dead
9. the dynasty that ruled China from about 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E., the period following the Qin dynasty
11. a network of roads along which traders traveled
12. a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes proper behavior
15. a network of trade routes that stretched for more than four thousand miles across Asia
16. a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes strict obedience to laws