FROM THE BEGINNING

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Across
  1. 2. Trade city in southern Russia established by Scandinavian traders
  2. 4. Created the largest land empire in world history
  3. 6. Smells like teen enlightenment
  4. 8. One of the three great Chinese dynasties
  5. 9. If you're not sedentary, you are probably one of these
  6. 10. Series of military attempts by the West to free the Holy Land
  7. 13. Economic system based on profit-seeking, private ownership
  8. 16. Community of the faithful in Islam
  9. 17. Chinese ships
  10. 18. Labor compelled by the Incas, a form of taxation
Down
  1. 1. Dutch settlers in southern Africa
  2. 3. Sea going Scandinavian raiders of the 8th to 11th centuries
  3. 4. Non-Arab converts to Islam
  4. 5. A key element of the Roman economy
  5. 7. Tutor of Alexander the Great
  6. 11. Assembly of Roman aristocrats
  7. 12. Port city of Mali
  8. 14. The first civilization
  9. 15. Present-day Beijing, capital of Yuan Dynasty