Across
- 3. Chinese version of Indian faith
- 4. paper money but flew away in the wind but was easier to carry rather than heavy metal coins
- 7. agriculturally rich region started building many Hindu temples and buddhist monuments
- 9. hotels or inns where caravans would stay located along trade routes
- 11. A member of a class of travelers traditionally in Africa
- 13. Captain who sought to enroll distant peoples and states in the Chinese tribute system
- 14. went from being a daily activity for monks to then a religious symbol
- 17. permanent settlement of foreign traders
- 19. commercial activity and wider connections emerged in the Americas
- 20. rejected aspects of buddhism and daoism but appreciated
- 21. Chinese dynastic title
Down
- 1. teachings
- 2. new means of calculating latitude such as the astrolabe
- 5. widely traveled Arab scholar, merchant, and public official
- 6. Most prominent pilgrim and ruler of Mali
- 8. encompassed 25,000 square miles and linked some 150 outlying settlements to the main centers
- 10. This remarkable animal, which could go for ten days without water, finally made possible the long trek across the Sahara
- 12. most stunning architectural expression of Hinduism in the temple complex
- 15. Major trading city
- 16. sponsored an enormous Encyclopedia of some 11,000 volumes
- 18. African tongue within the larger Bantu family of languages