Across
- 2. those travelling on the Silk Road faced a constant threat of attack from ________ who plagued the caravan routes
- 4. the Chinese discovered the countries of _______ Asia in the mid-second century B.C
- 7. after retreating for a long time from the western world, China itself opened its "door to the ____"
- 10. the type of silk found in the burials in Northern Caucasus
- 11. for centuries travellers and pilgrims, scholars and _________ journeyed along the caravan roads
- 13. an ancient network of trade and cultural transmission routes through regions of the Asian continent
- 15. the most popular unit of payment in the early Middle Ages
- 16. where the principal branch traversing Asia from East to West originated (also an ancient capital of China)
- 17. the Silk Road generally ran through _______ dotted with skeletons
- 18. the principal branch of the silk road traversed through the ____ desert
- 19. the first people to discover the silk production from silkworm
- 20. the ____ road linked Khotan and Yarkend with the regions of Northern China
Down
- 1. the type of silk used for decoration of the relics of Christian saints in many cathedrals
- 3. a non-material item that was transported on the Silk Road
- 5. the person who coined the term "the Great Silk Road"
- 6. a Venetian merchant who was the first European to reach as far as the Chinese empire
- 8. the clothing made of silk which Roman senators preferred to wear
- 9. the city situated in the very heart of the Great Silk Road
- 12. the tusks of this animal could be found in merchants bales
- 14. the ________ road delivers lapis lazuli from Central Asia to Iran