| GENGHIS | Leader of the Mongol empire which stretched from China to Europe, ... Khan |
| GOLDENHORDE | The 13th-century Kipchat Khanate established in the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire which was initially ruled by Batu Khan, Genghis Khan's grandson (6,5) |
| PUGS | Small dogs, popular in the Imperial court, brought from China to Europe in the 16th Century (4) |
| INCA | People who built the Qhapaq Nan, or "Royal Road," which stretched roughly 3,700 miles |
| TEMUJIN | Founder of the Mongol empire, who adopted the name Genghis Khan (said to mean 'ruler of all') in 1206 (7) |
| KUBLAIKHAN | Khagan of the Mongol Empire; founder of the Yuan dynasty in China |
| KHAN | Genghis and Kublai were the first and last rulers of the Mongol Empire to have this title |
| MCC | VI years before the advent of the Mongol Empire |
| GENGHISKHAN | The founder, ruler and emperor of the Mongol Empire (7,4) |
| KARAKORUM | City founded by Genghis Khan in 1220; subsequently capital of the Mongol Empire (9) |
| HORDE | Golden ___ (part of the Mongol Empire) |
| KHANATE | Political subdivision of the Mongol empire |
| GOBI | Big portion of the Mongol Empire |
| GOLEM | Jewish monster from the Mongol Empire (Yiddish) (5) |
| CARPINI | John of Plano ___, Franciscan friar and traveller in the Mongol empire |
| MARCOPOLO | Venetian merchant and explorer noted for his travels in the Mongol empire (5,4) |
| BYZANTINE | Name for the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived for a thousand years after the western half had crumbled into various feudal kingdoms; it finally fell to Ottoman Turkish forces in 1453. |
| PERSIAN | Cyrus the Great ruled this empire, which extended from the Aegean Sea eastward to the Indus River. (7) |
| BOHEMIA | A kingdom of the Holy Roman Empire which later formed part of the Czech Republic (7) |
| NORTHUMBRIA | In Anglo-Saxon Britain, a region that stretched from the Humber to the Firth of Forth (11) |
