Across
- 2. hard gemstone often used to make jewelry and art
- 5. social system in which lords governed land farmed by peasants
- 7. a farmer with a small farm
- 8. group of rulers from the same family
- 9. moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity
- 10. founder of Daoism
- 12. China's earliest written records that shared predictions for the future
- 13. harsh desert that covers much of northern china
- 15. belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled
Down
- 1. longest Chinese river
- 3. people of high rank who owned land but owed loyalty to the king
- 4. philosophy based on the ideas of Confucius that focuses on morality, family order, social harmony and government
- 6. dust-like material that forms soil & make Huang He River Yellow
- 8. philosophy that developed in China and stressed the belief that one should live in harmony with the Dao, the guiding force of all reality
- 11. most influential teacher in Chinese history
- 14. river that often floods