Ancient China

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Across
  1. 1. Road/An ancient trade route between Europe and China
  2. 2. River/China's longest river
  3. 6. crop and part of Chinese climate
  4. 7. valuable cloth first made in China
  5. 8. River/aka Yellow River. Muddiest river in the world and caused many deaths
  6. 11. soil
  7. 14. Dynasty/imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy
  8. 15. Dynasty/Conquered the Shang. Ruled for almost 1000 years
Down
  1. 1. Dynasty/First civilization in China. Made good bronze work and created China's first writing system
  2. 2. philosopher and teacher; his belifs,known as Confucianism greatly influenced Chinese life
  3. 3. of Heaven/a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source
  4. 4. Cotta Warriors/statues that represented Shi Huangdi's real army, protected him in the afterlife
  5. 5. Dynasty/the Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established the first centralized imperial government and built much of the Great Wall
  6. 9. Great Wall of China/a wall to defend China from barbarians from the North
  7. 10. China Climate/dry
  8. 12. China Climate/warm, wet
  9. 13. Bang/founder of the Han dynasty