Ancient China
Crossword Puzzle Clues
Across
2 – a ruling family; also the period
during which it is in power
6 – government department that
hires workers to fill other
government jobs
8 – fertile layer of mud and sand left
by a flooding river
9 – people who move from place to
place, seeking food, water, and
grazing land for their animals
10 – the system for changing Chinese
characters into the letters of the
Roman alphabet, which was
officially adopted by the Chinese
government in 1979
11 – making things the same, such as
creating one language and one
system of measurement
12 – the system of trade routes across
Central Asia, along which
merchants carried silk and other
luxury goods between China and
the West a picture used to
represent a thing
13 – the symbols of a writing system
14 – ancient animal bones and
tortoise shells that preserve the
earliest known form of Chinese
writing
Down
1 – the examination system used to
select civil servants in China from the
Han dynasty until 1905
3 – respect for parents; a central idea of
Confucianism
4 – the Chinese idea of government that
people can only be controlled by
stern laws and harsh punishments
5 – the teachings of the Chinese thinker
Confucius
6 – handwriting as an art form
7 – a government official