Across
- 2. peasant leader who toppled the Mongols
- 4. linked various regions, made trade easier, and allowed cities to grow
- 8. novel about an outlaw gang that tries to end social injustice
- 11. improved on by scholar Xu Guangqi
- 12. blue and white vases made from this
Down
- 1. "brilliant"
- 3. Chinese admiral
- 5. number of expeditions made by Zheng He
- 6. mathematical counting plate
- 7. horizontal steps cut into steep hillsides to gain soil in which to grow crops
- 9. initially moved the capital here before moving it back to Beijing
- 10. new crop from the Americas