Across
- 2. A printing system developed by the ancient Chinese, in which wood blocks were carved with enough characters to print entire pages
- 3. Chinese dynasty from 246 BC to 206 BC that established the first centralized government
- 4. a large, complex organization composed of appointed officials
- 6. A book containing the ideas and teaching of Confucianism
- 10. yellow-brown soil at the bottom of a river
- 12. The system of ethics that focuses on the role of relationships, respect, and loyalty
- 13. Chinese invention that aided navigation by showing which direction was north
- 14. blood relationship
- 15. in Chinese history, the divine approval thought to be the basis of royal authority
- 16. A Chinese philosopher who created Confucianism, a type of belief.
- 18. An ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean Sea extending some 4,000 mi and linking China with the Roman Empire.
Down
- 1. Chinese dynasty that expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy
- 5. a ceramic made of fine clay baked at very high temperatures
- 7. the belief that people were bad from nature and needed to be controlled
- 8. The first emperor of the Qin dynasty who believed strongly in Legalism to strengthen the centralized China through public works
- 9. a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority
- 11. the spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another
- 17. a valuable cloth, originally made only in China from threads spun by caterpillars called silkworms
- 19. related to a god or gods