Across
- 1. a large political unit where a powerful state or ruler controls multiple territories, peoples, or nations, often expanding through conquest or colonization to incorporate diverse populations under a single authority
- 4. this allowed rulers to extend their systems of central command farther and farther away from their capitals.
- 5. long-distance exchanges of products and ideas
- 7. between about 300 BCE and 300 CE, merchants extended trade routes across Inner Eurasia on this
- 8. the growth of an empire's borders
- 9. a large city in 100CE, located in China
Down
- 2. advanced road construction (the Persians and Romans), canal building (the Chinese), and the use of the camel as the main transport animal in arid (dry) lands are examples of these
- 3. a large city in 100CE, with a population nearing one million
- 6. this replaced chariots as a tool for military conquest and control