Ancient History

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Across
  1. 1. Civilization that invented many things, such as chocolate and the mesoamerican calendar
  2. 3. First civilization to use coins
  3. 5. First period in history where humans started using agriculture
  4. 7. Location of the earliest cave paintings in Europe
  5. 8. Stringed instrument commonly used in the ancient Mediterranean
  6. 9. Term for a certain prehistoric knapped stone tool, often a misnomer for spearheads or scrapers
  7. 11. Leader of the Spartans during the Battle of Thermopylae
  8. 12. One of the worst Roman military defeats, fought against the Parthians
  9. 13. Civilization in the Mediterranean, often thought to be the first in Europe
  10. 14. First civilization to use iron
  11. 16. Name of the primary ethnic group of the Aztec empire
  12. 17. Battle between the Rashidun Caliphate and the Sassanid Empire that ended the Sassanid Empire
Down
  1. 2. Founder of the Achaemenid Empire
  2. 4. First documented plague in history, during the Eastern Roman Empire
  3. 6. Civilization where the Italian region "Tuscany" gets its name from
  4. 10. The Egyptian god of chaos, more commonly known as "Seth"
  5. 15. First dynasty of China, often thought to be partially or entirely mythical