The Mongols

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Across
  1. 2. The original valuable item that was traded along the Silk Road
  2. 4. Soldiers mounted on horses who were powerful in battle
  3. 8. The event which was held to choose new leaders in the Mongol Empire
  4. 10. There are different opinions about whether this adventurer actually made it to China or not
  5. 12. The Mongol Empire went as far west as this country
  6. 13. A delicious and valuable treasure that was traded along the Silk Road
  7. 15. The Chinese hated these people because they made money from other people's work, but the Mongols valued them
  8. 16. The main trade route that the Mongols helped to develop thousands of years ago, before reopening it in the 13th Century
  9. 18. The type of house that nomadic Mongols lived in
  10. 19. The man who successfully united the nomadic tribes on the steppes of Asia
  11. 21. Genghis Khan's name when he was a child
  12. 22. The Mongols are believed to have spread this deadly disease
  13. 25. One of the original things that the Chinese used silk for
  14. 27. In a famous adventurer's stories, he apparently saw a 50 foot ________ covered in fur, while on his trip to China
  15. 28. The Mongol Empire was apparently so ________ that a woman could carry a bag of gold from one side to the other and not get robbed
  16. 29. The lowest members of the Yuan dynasty while the Mongols were in control
  17. 31. People who move from location to location without a permanent dwelling
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  1. 1. The written law that Genghis Khan made
  2. 3. The desert which was close to where the Mongol Empire started
  3. 5. The Mongol Empire apparently had freedom of _________, due to not everyone having the same spiritual connection to the land of the Mongols
  4. 6. A lack of this is said to be the main reason why the Mongol Empire started to collapse
  5. 7. Genghis Khan promoted people in his army based on this
  6. 9. Genghis Khan's first and most important wife, who he became famous for rescuing from kidnappers
  7. 11. Approximately 1 in 200 people are direct ______________ of Genghis Khan
  8. 14. Kublai Khan was the first ruler of this dynasty in China
  9. 17. The Mongols valued these skillful people more than the Chinese did
  10. 20. The Mongols became very good at this type of warfare when battling castles
  11. 22. The famous Middle Eastern city that the Mongols captured in 1258
  12. 23. A skill involving weapons that the Mongols used for both hunting and battles
  13. 24. Genghis Khan's father was killed by this when he was just a child
  14. 26. The Mongols conquered more land in 25 years than this empire did in 400 years
  15. 30. The Mongol soldiers collected these from their enemies