Across
- 3. Traditional vessels used by Buddhist Monks to recieve food or money
- 10. Provided rapid communication across the Mongol Empire and fostered trade
- 11. Muslim Eunuch, Great Chinese Admiral who commanded a huge fleet of ships
- 12. The black death
- 14. Major commercial city of West African Civilization
- 15. Men that were personally loyal to the emperor and exercised great authority
- 16. Language that is grammatically African tongue, but written in Arabic script
- 18. Grandson of Chinggis Khan, became the first il-Khan of Persia
- 19. A Mongol capital
- 20. A north American chiefdom near present day St.Louis
Down
- 1. Mongol Dynasty that gave themselves the name of a Chinese dynastic title
- 2. Paper Money innovated by the Chinese
- 4. Emperor of Mali Empire, considered to be the wealthiest person in history
- 5. Made trans-Saharan commerce possible
- 6. Guesthouses located along the trade routes
- 7. Traditional west African oral historians and storytellers
- 8. Kingdom in central Java
- 9. New naval advancement (ships by China)
- 13. "Mongols of the Seas"
- 17. Built by the Angkor kingdom to express a Hindu understanding of the cosmos centered on Mt. Meru
