China

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Imperial dynasty that ruled China and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy (3)
  2. 4. Plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper (4)
  3. 6. Ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic (9)
  4. 9. A major ___ of Asia in northern China (11)
  5. 10. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games (plural) (5)
  6. 11. Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis (9)
  7. 13. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing (3)
  8. 14. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet (5)
  9. 15. Navigational instrument for finding directions (7)
  10. 16. An autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China (5)

Down

  1. 1. A cart for carrying small loads (11)
  2. 2. A mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery (9)
  3. 5. Small white grains grown in wet fields (4)
  4. 7. A socialist who advocates ___ (9)
  5. 8. A fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC (9)
  6. 12. A material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses (5)