Ancient China Crossword

This dynasty lowered taxes, reduced punishments, and made Confucianism the official government policy.
A person of high rank who owned land but owed loyalty to his king
The Huang He, flows from west to east
The first emperor of the Qin Dynasty and the first to unite China under a single ruler.
Chinese farmers grew this along the Chang Jiang Valley by 7000 BC
The harsh desert separated China from its neighbors in the north
moral values
included farmers, bottom of the social class
Chinese priests believed they could read these on cracked bones to tell the future
people who buy and sell items, sometimes very wealthy
This dynasty is rumored to have built the first flood control channels in China. Founded by Yu the Great
A manmade barrier across China's frontier to prevent invasions
The spreading of ideas to different parts of the world
a device that uses the position of shadows cast by the sun to tell time. Invented by the Han dynasty
Chang Jiang
a soft highly valued fabric, first made in China from the cocoons of certain kinds of worms
a device that measures the strength of an earthquake, invented by the Han dynasty
an early Chinese believe that stressed living in harmony with the universe
this dynasty was established in the 1500's and created China's first writing system
he was born a peasant but became the a Han emperor after the Qin fell apart
a belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled
the most famous Daoist teacher and credited with writing, The Way and Its Power
a hard gemstone, the graves of the rich often contained objects made from this
the way a task is accomplished
to be different
the way something is set up or organized
to create a new idea, method, or device
also called the records of the grand Historian, describes more than 2000 years of Chinese culture
the power given from heaven to rule