Across
- 2. China's first capital
- 5. appointed officials who are responsible for different areas of government
- 7. characters that stand of objects
- 9. the longest river in China and Asia and the third longest river in the world
- 11. characters that are joined by two or more pictographs used in Chinese writing
- 12. valuable cloth first made only in China
Down
- 1. series of rulers from the same family
- 3. Chinese philosopher and teacher whose beliefs greatly influenced China
- 4. nobles whose wealth came from the land they owned
- 6. second longest river in China that looks yellow because of the soil it carries
- 8. ancient trade route between China and Europe
- 10. extends about 1,400 miles across northern China that was built in the third century BC
