Across
- 1. Zhu Yuanzhang founded a new Chinese dynasty in 1368
- 5. underwater eathquakes that lunch killer tidal waves
- 7. 800 A.D the rulers of Soninke people were able to unit farming villages and create this kingdom
- 8. chain of islands, about 100 miles off the Asian mainland and east of the Korean peninsula
- 11. Greeks used for the region
- 12. treeless plains
- 13. families important kinship ties
- 16. the dynasty that restored China in 618
- 18. the modren word Korea is derived, replaced the Silla in 918
- 22. patment that a women brings to a marriage, and could never remarry
- 23. grassy plains
- 24. river irrigated fertile rice
- 25. porcelain with an unusual blue-green glaze
- 27. the language spoken by West African people
- 28. wealthy landowning class
- 29. multidtoried temple with eaves that curve up at the conners
Down
- 2. professional storytellers
- 3. greatest ruler of the kingdom of Mali
- 4. most extraordinary overseas ventures were the voyages of the Chinese admiral and diplomat
- 6. descent, or inheritance though the mother, was an accepted custom in Southeast Asia
- 9. domeshaped shrines
- 10. on the Red Sea and the upland capital city of Axum
- 14. waterfalls
- 15. Italian merchant and one of the many visitors to China during the Yuan dynasty
- 17. valuable product
- 18. Korea's most celebrated ruler in 1443
- 19. phometic symbols representing syllables
- 20. East African international trade system led to the emergence of a vibrant culture and a new language
- 21. Korean phonetic alphabet that uses symbols to represent the sound of spoken Korean
- 26. group of households who claimed a common ancestor