Ancient China

3. A Philosophy taught that strict laws and punishments would help people obey their leaders
6. A group of traveling merchants and animals.
7. A Chinese dynasty that excelled in warfare, created the government's civil service exam.
10. Characters that stand for objects
12. An organized way in which people produce, sell, and buy goods and services.
13. Piety Head of Family honored by other members.
15. Used in Chinese writing to join two or more pictographs to represent an idea.
18. A green area in a desert fed by underground water.
20. The ability to live forever.

1. A group of appointed officials who are responsible for different areas of government.
2. A political system based on bonds of loyalty between lords and vassals.
4. One of China’s earliest dynasties; Developed social classes
5. A line of rulers in the same family
8. A Chinese practice of easing pain by sticking thin needles into patients’ skin.
9. Taught that people needed to have a sense of duty to their family and community in order to bring peace to society; taught by Confucius.
11. Nobles whose wealth came from the land they owned.
14. A group of families related by blood or marriage.
16. Formal order.
17. A Chinese philosophy based on the teachings of Laozi; taught that people should turn to nature and give up their worldly concerns.
19. Road A network of trade routes that stretched 4,000 miles from western China to southwest Asia.