Across
- 2. Amina visited this place in Bukhara and found rainbow silks
- 5. these fearsome people traveled the seas and attacked boats in search of things and people to steal!
- 7. Fatima befriended her at the caravanserais
- 8. Arabs designed this type of innovative sail
- 11. this field was also influenced among civilisations along Silk Road
- 17. a textile good from the West
- 18. the first port of call on the ancient spice route
- 19. Fatima and Hadi stayed in here in Cairo
- 20. first city to copy paper-making from the Chinese
- 21. after he died, the silk routes collapsed as trade dwindled overland
- 22. Silk Road prospered under them
- 23. from elephant trunks from the East
Down
- 1. Stone used for blue tilework in Samarkand
- 3. the explorer that found the sea route to India by going around Africa
- 4. Italian trading city
- 6. this skill eventually found its way beyond Chinese borders and spread to other countries
- 9. city where Persian merchants met with Roman merchants
- 10. Silk Route originated when travel overland began through this empire
- 12. start of Silk Road in the east
- 13. Travellers banded together in these to have protection from bandits
- 14. Shape of the caravanserais in Aminabad
- 15. People come to Bukhara from all over to visit it
- 16. Open square in Samarqand