Across
- 2. a set of regularly followed ceremonies
- 4. action to improve social or economic conditions
- 6. Comunist leader of China from 1949 to 1976
- 8. a ruler of an empire
- 9. a religion that is based on the teaching of Siddhartha Gautama
- 10. the first emperor to unify much of China
- 13. an economy in which business is privately owned
- 14. the founder of Buddhism who taught that people could end their suffering by not desiring worldly goods
- 16. educated people who worked in the government
- 17. a public gathering to protest a policy or action
- 19. shared ownership of property
Down
- 1. trade routes used between China and Southwest Asia
- 3. a huge and long wall built to keep nomads out
- 5. a governmental division like a state
- 7. is a system in which the government holds nearly all political power.
- 11. a Chinese belief system based on the teachings of Confucius
- 12. a line of rulers from the same family
- 15. a Chinese belief system based on the idea of natural order
- 18. China's national law-making body (abbreviation)