Across
- 3. Seasonal winds in the Indian Ocean
- 4. someone who lives by traveling from place to place
- 9. followed the Shang dynasty and preceded the Qin dynasty
- 12. Empire in central and southern China
- 13. routes connecting China and the Middle East
- 14. Took voyages through the Indian Ocean, and from Southeast Asia to Africa
- 15. Euro-American slave trade
- 17. multinational, multilingual empire controlling most of Southeastern Europe
- 18. fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China
- 20. Empire created in China and Siberia by Khubilai Khan
- 22. Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire
- 23. A person or company involved in wholesale trade
- 25. Chinese custom for young girls
Down
- 1. A political and moral philosophy based on liberty
- 2. describe new approaches to understanding classic Confucian texts
- 5. They are good lands for nomads and their herds
- 6. The empire fell to the Ottomans in 1453
- 7. Ruled by Chi Huangdi
- 8. one of the deadliest diseases
- 10. brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation
- 11. Largest and most powerful Andean empire
- 16. a powerful empire in central Mexico
- 19. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan, linking western and eastern Eurasia
- 21. also historically known as the Yin dynasty
- 24. historical period of the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances