Ancient China

3. A woman who is the secondary wife to a married Chinese man.
4. A body of unelected government officials
8. A mixture of powders used in guns and explosives
10. A policy of avoiding contact with other countries
11. an educated member of China’s government who passed a series of written examinations
12. An old Chinese custom of wrapping a girl's feet so that they do not grow.

1. A sequence of rulers from the same family or group.
2. A form of printing in which an entire page is carved into a block of wood, covered in ink, and pressed into place
5. A canal linking northern and southern China
6. a thin, beautiful pottery invented in China.
7. an instrument that uses the earth’s magnetic field to indicate direction
9. service as a government official