Across
- 3. Lenk – Muslim general who conquered most of Asia in 1369
- 4. – one of separate territories into which Genghis Khan’s empire was split each under the rule of one of his sons
- 8. – this influenced artists to create mountainous landsccapes
- 10. – was thought of as a damaging religion in China
- 13. Shotuku Taishi – this Yamato ruler centralized the government of Japan
- 15. – a powerful military leader in Japan “general”
- 17. – the state of being complex or of having many intricate parts
- 18. Shonogon – wrote The Pillow Book
- 19. – the head of a powerful Japanese noble family
- 20. – a group of behavior who controlled much of the land and produced most candidate for civil servants
- 22. – an interval of time
- 23. – there were too many followers of this faith and Muslims could not convert them, but ruled them like foreign conquerors
- 27. – a type of Buddhism that stressed transforming oneself through moral conduct and meditation
- 29. – the way of the warrior
- 30. – this is made of fine baked clay baked at high temperatures
- 31. Shikibu – wrote The Tale of the Gengi
- 34. Polo – this Italian merchant described China as “Paradise”
- 35. Dynasty – completed the Chinese Grand Canal through forced labor
Down
- 1. Khan – completed the conquest of the Song Dynasty and set up a new dynasty – the Yuan
- 2. Yuanzhang – began the Ming Dynasty
- 5. – the term for the landform of Japan
- 6. – a gift of money or property paid at the time of the marriage, either by the bride’s parents to her husband or, Islamic societies by a husband to his wife
- 7. Dynasty – broke up large estates to reduce the power of the wealthy and gave land to the peasants; re-established the civil service examination; expanded Chinese power into Tibet
- 9. – a type of Buddhism that taught the way to enlightenment was open to everyone
- 11. – famous author of Sanskrit prose who wrote The Adventures of the Ten Princes
- 12. Road – religions spread along this; the use of paper money for goods on this created banks
- 14. – evolved as a response to Buddhism in the late Tang dynasty
- 16. – a type of Buddhism that has different paths to enlightenment
- 20. – the Sacred Way; belief in the divinity of the emperor
- 21. Zhi - used algebra to solve problems of geometry
- 24. Dynasty – even with trouble from the Mongols, this dynasty ruled dung a period of prosperity and cultural achievement
- 25. Khan – Mongol leader who unified the Mongols and spread the Mongol Empire across Asia and much of Europe
- 26. – Japanese warriors who served local aristocrats
- 28. – the first people of Southeast Asia to develop their own country and culture; China tried to conquer them and failed
- 32. period – created the title of “Son of Heaven” for the emperor of Japan
- 33. dynasty – the root of the modern name for Korea
- 35. Yangdi – cruel Sui ruler who was murdered because of his high taxes