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