APWHM: Unit 2 [Networks of Exchange]

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Across
  1. 2. Khanate replacing Persian land, ruled by Hülegü (1256–1335)
  2. 3. wrote one of the world's most famous travel logs, the Riḥlah; describes people, places, cultures encountered along his 120,000km across/beyond Islamic world
  3. 6. N. African desert nomads who traveled / traded across Sahara desert
  4. 9. a roadside inn where travelers (caravaners) could rest and recover from the day's journey
  5. 12. Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire (modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, Central Asia)
  6. 14. Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, fleet admiral, court eunuch during China's early Ming dynasty, regarded as the greatest admiral in Chinese history, sailed to African coast in early 1400's
  7. 16. Italian merchant, explorer / writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271-1295
  8. 17. trading something for another
  9. 18. city, southeastern Uzbekistan, among oldest continuously inhabited cities in world, Silk Road connection
  10. 21. population scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin
  11. 23. khanate of northern China (Song Dynasty), ruled by Kublai (1271–1368)
  12. 25. Khanate of Central Asia, ruled by Chagatai (1227-1462)
  13. 26. network of paths connecting civilizations in the East & West (1,400+ years)
  14. 27. fine-grained and translucent ceramic wares, sometimes referred to as "china"
Down
  1. 1. founder & first khagan of Mongol Empire (1162-1227)
  2. 4. infection spread to humans by infected fleas on rodents, killed millions / AKA Black Death (1347-'51)
  3. 5. (1400-1511) Malaysia; strategic position at Straits of Malacca, controlled Indian Ocean trade at Malay Archipelago
  4. 7. seasonal change in the direction of the prevailing, or strongest, winds of a region
  5. 8. W. China city once a booming Silk Road trading post
  6. 10. 1,800-mile stretch of Kenyan-Tanzanian coastline, the site of cultural & commercial exchanges between East Africa and the outside world - particularly the Middle East, Asia, and Europe since the 2nd C. A.D
  7. 11. quick-maturing, drought resistant rice that can allow two harvests per growing season
  8. 13. type of historic polity ruled by a khan. Khanates, typically nomadic Turkic/Mongol/Tatar societies (Eurasian Steppe)
  9. 15. khanate of Northwest Asia, ruled by Jochi (1225–1502)
  10. 19. an interconnected chain, group, or system
  11. 20. state along the western coast of India; of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula
  12. 22. flat piece hinged vertically near stern of a boat or ship for steering
  13. 24. English Christian mystic, wrote the first autobiography in English language