Topic 5 Lesson 5

People who are assigned to a position in the government and who took orders from those above them and gave orders to those below them.

• officials

• Silk Road

• civil service

• assigned

To give as a job or task.

• officials

• Silk Road

• civil service

• assigned

a tool to detect earthquakes

• seismometer

• Silk Road

• civil service

• calligraphy

A network of trade routes that crossed Asia, connecting China to Central and Southwest Asia.

• cuisine

• civil service

• Silk Road

• envoys

representatives of the emperor

• cuisine

• envoys

• obtained

• officials

a style of cooking

• cuisine

• envoys

• obtained

• officials

to get or to receieve something

• obtain

• cuisine

• envoy

• Silk Road

when a single group controls the production of a good or service

• obtain

• cuisine

• envoy

• monopoly

something good or helpful

• obtain

• benefits

• envoy

• monopoly

to be free from a punishment or duty

• obtain

• exempt

• envoy

• seismometer