ANCIENT CHINA

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Across
  1. 3. formal order
  2. 4. Chinese practice of easing pain by sticking thin needles into a patients' skin
  3. 6. those who work on land that is owned by someone else and pay rent in crops (Section 3)
  4. 10. government jobs and positions for which exams were created during the Han Dynasty (Section 3)
  5. 12. network of walls constructed to keep out nomads from the northern borders of China (Section 3)
  6. 14. noble whose wealth came from land ownership
  7. 15. a character that stands for an object
Down
  1. 1. a kind of character used in Chinese writing
  2. 2. philosophy which taught that all men with a talent for governing should take part in government
  3. 5. scratches found on these objects are the earliest known examples of Chinese writing; used by kings to ask for the gods' help (Section 1)
  4. 7. a group of appointed officials who are responsible for different areas of government
  5. 8. children's respect for their parents and older relatives
  6. 9. philosophy which promoted a system of laws and punishments
  7. 11. large network of trade routes that stretched from western China to southwest Asia
  8. 13. philosophy that promotes a peaceful society; based on teachings of Laozi