Across
- 7. System of stations that provided rapid communication accross Mongol empire
- 8. A major commercial city of West African civilization
- 9. Major Turkic empire in Persia in the early sixteenth century
- 11. A reformulation of Confucianism in which the religious aspects of Buddhism & Daoism were rejected
- 15. Distinct node of commercial activity and wider connections in the Americas
- 16. Technique of warfare that Mongols acquired from the Chinese
- 17. State-approved associations of merchants
- 18. A great Chinese admiral who commanded a huge fleet of ships in a series of voyages in the Indian Ocean
- 19. Grandson of Chinggis Khan; led the second assault on Persia
- 21. Relationships that Mongols established that led to rulers being peaceful
Down
- 1. A widely traveled Arab scholar, merchant, and public official
- 2. Due to the death of this person, the Chinese fleet missions were stopped
- 3. Black Plague
- 4. Inns or Guesthouses where caravans could stop and rest
- 5. Chinese ships
- 6. A kingdom in central Java
- 10. The largest religious structure in premodern world; used by both Hindus and Buddhists
- 12. Europeans were known as this
- 13. Chinese dynasty that succeeded the Yuan dynasty of the Mongols
- 14. The Mongol capital
- 15. The major process of settlement and societal organization that occured among the people of the Chaco canyon
- 20. The alternating wind currents that blew predictably northeast durign the summer months and southwest during the winter