Across
- 2. the most stunning architectural expression of Hinduism in the temple complex
- 8. originally domesticated in Southeast Asia and provided both agriculture and economic growth in Africa.
- 9. The people who herded large groups of animals for grazing environments in varying climates.
- 10. politically united the region shortly after the withdrawal of the Mongols
- 11. the alternating wind currents that blew northeast during the summer months and southwest during the winter.
- 13. allowed Mongol leaders to know what was available to them and made possible the systematic taxation of conquered people.
- 14. provided rapid communication across the empires and fostered trade as well.
- 15. could go for ten days without water, and finally made possible the long trek across the Sahara.
- 16. with various specialized offices took shape in the new capital of Karakorum.
- 17. 7 feet frame of a Chinese man who
- 18. Dynasty/Great Khanate in China, Ilkhanate in the Southeast and Persia, and the Chagatai Khanate in Central Asia
- 21. who became the first il-khan (subordinate khan) of Persia.
- 22. personally loyal to the emperor exercised great authority, much to the dismay of the official bureaucrats.
Down
- 1. facilitated Indian Ocean commerce and they were permanent settlements of foreign traders at various points along the Indian Ocean routes.
- 3. a widely traveled Arab scholar, merchant, and public official, visited the Swahili coast in the early fourteenth century
- 4. Chinese power and prestige in the Indian Ocean and exerted Chinese control over foreign trade in the region.
- 5. in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries helped an independent Persia reunite for a sustained period.
- 6. A form of Buddhism in which it was excluded from China.
- 7. powerful state which seems clearly connected to the growing trade in gold to the coast and to the wealth from its large herds of cattle.
- 12. the inns or guest houses for caravans located all along the trade routes from the eastern Mediterranean to China
- 19. outlook rejected the religious aspects of both Buddhism and Daoism but appreciated the high moral standards of Buddhist teachings
- 20. state-approved associations of merchants that could pool there resources and limit there losses in the event a caravan failed.
