China

2. a body of unelected government
3. a sequence of rulers from the same family or group
4. a canal linking northern and southern China
7. an old Chinese custom of wrapping a girls feet so they would not grow
10. a form of printing in which an entire page is carved into a block of wood covered with ink and pressed to a piece of paper to create a printed page.
12. a won second married to an ancient Chinese man

1. an educated member of China's government who passed a series of written examinations
5. service as a government official
6. a policy of avoiding contact with other countries
8. a mixture of powders used in guns and explosives.
9. a thin beautiful pottery invented in China
11. an instrument that used the earth's magnetic field to indicate direction