Across
- 3. the system of dividing society into hereditary classes or groups of people based on their birth
- 4. a type of farming where herders move from place to place with their animals looking for food and water
- 6. a family line of rulers of a country
- 7. the production of crops and farm animals for sale
- 8. brown clay used to make pots and statues
- 10. a fee that a country charges on imported goods
- 12. a large, distinguishable part of a continent
- 15. a person who gets the property or rank of another on that person's death
- 17. a belief that all work is worthwhile
- 18. a seasonal wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia blowing from the southwest between May and September or from the northeast between October and April
- 19. the name of Japan's elected legislature
- 20. extreme scarcity of food
- 21. a type of farming done where individuals grow enough food and raise enough animals to meet the needs of their families
- 22. a ruler of great rank and power
- 23. when a country exports more goods than it imports
Down
- 1. earthquakes, the eruption of volcanoes,and the slow building of mountains that occur when Earth's tectonic plates move
- 2. the rebirth of a soul in a new body
- 5. the belief that your actions in this life will affect your next life
- 9. a fine,strong,lustrous fiber produced by silkworms
- 11. someone who doesn't believe in the existence of God or gods
- 13. the refusal to obey certain laws or pay taxes as a peaceful form of protest
- 14. reaching a state of enlightenment in which there is no suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth
- 16. a belief system and set of teachings founded in China around 500 B.C.E.