Across
- 2. art of brush and ink handwriting
- 3. wealthy landowning families
- 4. a method of treating pain by piercing the skin at vital points with needles
- 6. famous trade route opened by merchants
- 7. they gave the world paper, explosives, and the compass
- 8. they protected people from outlaws, rebels, and barbarians
Down
- 1. placed at the very bottom of society by the upper class by not using their strength or their minds
- 2. a bureaucracy in which officials were hired on exams rather than birth
- 5. enclosed yards with many buildings
- 7. those who passed all four levels of civil service exams