Across
- 1. a valuable cloth, originally made only in China from threads spun by caterpillars called silkworms
- 2. the type of money used by a group or a nation
- 5. the founder of the Han dynasty
- 7. the group of people whose job it is to carry out the work of the government
- 9. a system of beliefs and values
- 10. an ancient trade route between China and Europe
- 13. closely related people of several generations
Down
- 1. founder of the Qin dynasty and China's first emperor
- 3. Chinese philosopher and teacher whose beliefs had a great influence on Chinese life
- 4. a local leader of an armed group
- 6. a Chinese scholar, astronomer, and historian; author of the most important history of ancient China, Historical Records
- 8. yellow-brown soil
- 11. protective wall that controls or holds back water
- 12. Chinese emperor who brought the Han dynasty to its greatest strength