Across
- 3. first book printed with Gutenburg's printing press
- 9. Italian who goes to China by land. Writes about it.
- 10. first to invent the printing press
- 11. Spanish gun
- 12. name for a gold coin
- 14. China's golden age dynasty
- 15. greatest engineering project completed during the Ming Dynasty
- 16. an important city in Mali
- 18. used to preserve food for up to a year
- 19. allows the Chinese to defeat the Mongols
- 20. a Chinese state secret
- 21. preferred animal on the silk road
Down
- 1. wipes out up to a fifth of the planet
- 2. invented by the Chinese first for fireworks
- 4. finances the Renaissance
- 5. traveler from Morocco.
- 6. Muslim rulers of Spain
- 7. queen of Spain in the 15th and 16th century
- 8. king of Spain in the 15th and 16th century
- 13. groups of travelers on the silk road
- 17. ruled China for 150 years
- 18. trade route connecting Asia and Europe