Across
- 4. Sea-based trade and exploration routes
- 6. Philosophy emphasizing family loyalty and social harmony
- 9. Fine ceramic highly prized in domestic and foreign trade
- 10. Nomadic group that ruled China during the Yuan dynasty
- 12. Water-control systems supporting farming
- 15. Centralized government structure ruled by emperors
- 17. Crop that underpinned agricultural expansion
- 18. that reunified China and ushered in a golden age
- 19. Overland trade route connecting China to Europe and the Middle East
- 20. Mongol-led period also known as the Mongol Ascendancy
- 21. Confucian revival integrating Buddhism and Daoism
- 22. Navigational tool enabling long-distance sea travel
- 23. Spread of cultural ideas and technologies
- 24. Commodity that played a major historic trade role
Down
- 1. Method using carved blocks to print on paper
- 2. System of departments and officials under imperial rule
- 3. Growth of cities as trade and administrative hubs
- 5. Test to select government officials based on Confucian learning
- 7. Government official selected through civil service exams
- 8. known for major technological and commercial advances
- 10. famous for maritime expeditions and imperial consolidation
- 11. Chinese innovation used in weapons and fireworks
- 13. Religion from India that spread through East Asia
- 14. Chinese invention that revolutionized writing and printing
- 16. System where other states paid tribute to China