Chapter 2 Crossword

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence (5)
  2. 3. A sequence of powerful leaders in the same family (7)
  3. 5. A slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription (plural) (7)
  4. 7. The Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of five classes (13)
  5. 8. A region marked off for administrative or other purposes (plural) (9)
  6. 12. An architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness (4)
  7. 13. An Asian river (6)
  8. 14. Soft plant fibers harvested and used to make cloth. (6)

Down

  1. 1. A mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet (plural) (9)
  2. 4. French playwright (plural) (7)
  3. 6. A ___ in central China (10)
  4. 9. The imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC (5)
  5. 10. A structure taller than its diameter (5)
  6. 11. United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who (4)