Across
- 3. Provided communication across the Mongol Empire
- 4. Surrounding an area to cut it off from supplies
- 7. Widely traveled Arab scholar
- 8. Most popular form of Buddhism in China
- 10. Commanded massive fleets of Chinese Ships
- 11. Widely connected (in the commercial web) North American chiefdom
- 14. Wealthy Mali leader who took a pilgrimage to Mecca
- 16. Settlement of Chaco Canyon people
- 17. Chinese Dynastic title the Mongols granted themselves
- 18. First il-khan of Persia
- 19. inns/guesthouses
- 21. Major Islamic commercial trading center
Down
- 1. Buddhism symbol
- 2. Bacteria of the Black Death
- 5. Japanese Buddhism
- 6. Men personal to the emperor who authorized great authority in the Ming Dynasty
- 9. Transportation that allowed travel on the sand roads
- 12. Capital of the Mongols
- 13. Emperor who ordered fleets and built the Forbidden City- China
- 15. Language spoken in East African today that contains Arab loan words
- 20. Largest Religious Structure (premodern)