Number the paragraph box 1-10. Fill in the answers using this word bank. ONLY PUT THE ANSWER IN YOUR PARAGRAPH BOX. 1 point for following directions.

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(1) Chinese artists were _________ by other cultures.
(2) During the Tang and Song dynasties, learning and knowledge were honored and civil service was based on _______.
(3) Chinese inventions include the ________ and paper.
(4) The Mongols lived a nomadic life because the land and climate ___________ farming.
(5) The Mongols needed to move ________ of miles from summer to winter pasturelands to find food for their herds and flocks.
(6) The Mongols carried all their __________with them as they followed their herds.
(7) The Mongols developed ________ that were easy to move.
(8) The Mongols were skilled ________ and warriors.
(9) The plague started in ______ and moved to the Mediterranean—Italy, Greece, Crete, Sicily, and Sardinia--and then westward across Europe to France, Aquitaine, Aragon, and Castile, and southward to Algiers and the rest of North Africa. It then spread into Portugal, Serbia, and Hungary, the central part of Western Europe, England, Ireland, and Norway. Finally, it reached the Holy Roman Empire, parts of Eastern Europe, Scotland, Denmark, and Sweden.
(10) The plague (Black Death) _________to all these areas in just four years.