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