Imperial China Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• porcelain : ceramics made of clay and baked at high temperatures
• calligraphy : artistic writing used with brush and ink
• steppe : flat, grassy plains that stretch far
• terror : creating fear through the acts of violence
• census : a numerical count of people living in an area
• barbarian : uncivilized person
• novel : long fictional stories
• wendi : chinese general who declared himself emperor and established the sui dynasty
• yangdi : built a canal that connects the huang he and chang jiang
• taizong : tang emperor who brought back civil service exams.
• uighurs : tang emperors hired these turkish-speaking people to fight for them
• tibet : an area north of the himalayas
• diamondsutra : buddhist book, and the earliest known printed book
• gunpowder : an invention used in the fire lance
• pi sheng : invented movable type for printing
• libo : wrote "alone looking at the mountain"
• mongols : nomads living in central asia.
• genghis khan : unified mongol clans and raised an army of over 100,000 trained soldiers
• kublai khan : continued his grandfather's goal and established the capital, khanbaliq and yuan dynasty
• marco polo : italian traveler famous for his expedition to china
• yuan zhang : military officer and emperor who took the name hong wu
• zhenghe : made a series of voyages to southeast asia, south asia, and africa
• manchus : defeated the chinese army and established the qing dynasty
• wu : only woman to rule chian on her own