Easy Crossword Puzzle: Chinese Ideas, Inventions & Discoveries

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Across
  1. 3. Chinese invention on sailing ship allowed them to steer.
  2. 11. "Magnetic" tool that helped ships to navigate.
  3. 12. Medical advance: Thin needles pierce skin; relieves pain; renews body.
  4. 14. Ceramic made of fine clay baked at high temperature, for dishes and vases.
  5. 16. Religion founded in India: reincarnation, kharma, dharma.
  6. 17. Chinese Invention: Millers of grain invented this to grind more grain with water.
  7. 18. This farm took was now made with cast-iron.
  8. 19. The ______ Road was a network of trade to expand.
  9. 20. Hindu belief that a person's actions affect how they will be reborn in a future life.
Down
  1. 1. Type of literature about nature written by Tang Dynasty poets Li Bo and Du Fu.
  2. 2. Woodblocks were used for this process of 'transfering' Chinese characters to paper.
  3. 4. Hindu belief in one's duties or responsibilities.
  4. 5. Chemical powder used in explosives, weapons, and fireworks.
  5. 6. Paintings of places that try to capture the idea of mountains, lakes, etc.
  6. 7. Coal heated to high temperatures in furnaces allowed iron carbon to make what super-strong metal.
  7. 8. Religion that seeks balance between yin and yang.
  8. 9. Religion: End suffering by following the Eight-Fold Path.
  9. 10. Buddhist idea of perfection, heaven, peace, happiness.
  10. 13. Government workers in the _____ Service studied Confucius and took exams.
  11. 15. Emperor who built the Great Wall.