Across
- 3. Chinese economic innovation that made trade more convenient and allowed for easy exchange after coin minting could not keep up with demand
- 6. Lucrative good from China within the Zhou Dynasty that rivaled Europe’s production of the same good
- 7. Indian religion that influenced Chinese culture
- 9. African ethnic group containing seven states bonded via kinship ties
- 11. Region of Africa below the Sahara containing Ghana, Mali, and Hausa
- 15. Geographic area that housed Aztec and Mayan civilizations
- 16. Payment to ruling nation in acknowledgement of submission; commonly practiced by the Aztec Empire
- 17. Chinese ideology that deeply influenced the Song Dynasty
- 18. Civilization on the Island of Java that accumulated wealth via control over sea routes
- 19. Confucian exam that permitted admission to the medieval bureaucracy
- 20. Process of societies advancing globally through various means
Down
- 1. Islamic Sultanate within India that converted for power and eventually led to the Hindu Vijayanagara Empire
- 2. Land-based southeast asian empire that thrived because of complex irrigation and drainage of the Mekong River; possessed huge agricultural prosperity
- 4. Mesoamerican Empire containing the capital Tenochtitlan
- 5. Exchange of goods
- 7. Indian religion with belief of karma and dharma and heavily influenced China via Taoism
- 8. Aspect of Hinduism that separated people into rigid social structures
- 10. Land mass housing majority of the world’s population and covered by the Silk Roads
- 12. Revered African oral storyteller
- 13. Process moving away from agrainarism and more towards manufactured goods
- 14. Indian religion that organized society with the caste system