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Silk Roads and Spices: Medieval Trade Lexicon
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Across
  • 1. Exotic goods bringing wealth to medieval elite, often fragrant.
  • 2. Historic merchant conglomerate controlling trade flows (used metaphorically).
  • 4. Shadowy profile of distant camel caravans on desert trails.
  • 6. Silk-woven fabric prized along Silk Road marketplaces.
  • 11. Water wheel aiding irrigation near trade oases.
  • 12. Traveling gait of horses bearing goods through rough paths.
  • 14. Itinerant traders mending pots, supplementing trade economies.
  • 15. Coated in gold leaf, like precious cargo or coins.
  • 16. Peaceful market zones established alongside dangerous routes.
  • 20. Herders guiding livestock on elongate trade routes.
Down
  • 3. Desert inn for merchants, sheltering caravans and camels.
  • 5. Blue dye shipments that colored medieval garments traded afar.
  • 7. Royal treasury safeguarding tariff revenues from trade.
  • 8. Parchment for contracts and merchant records in medieval bazaars.
  • 9. Leaves feeding silkworms, vital to eastern trade commodities.
  • 10. Medieval cloth covering used to protect wares on roads.
  • 13. Exchanged goods without coin, old economic tactic.
  • 17. Medieval term for the cost of currency exchange on routes.
  • 18. Guild-controlled measurement of cloth in medieval markets.
  • 19. Medieval Arabic term for a stealthy desert courier.

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