The World before the Opening of the Atlantic

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Across
  1. 2. in Islam, a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca
  2. 3. the Muslim ruler who led Songhai to the height of its power
  3. 7. underground ceremonial chambers at the center of each Anasazi community
  4. 8. German inventor of the moveable type printing press
  5. 11. Islamic places of worship
  6. 14. a society that traces ancestry through mothers
  7. 17. a form of government in which people rule themselves
  8. 18. a muslim king who ruled the Mali Empire at the height of its power and who spread Islamic influence through a large part of West Africa
  9. 20. people believed to have crossed the Bering Land Bridge
  10. 21. Italian artist, inventor, engineer, and mapmaker of the Renaissance
  11. 23. a strip of land between Asia and present day Alaska that was exposed by the lower sea levels of the Ice Age
  12. 25. a group's set of common values and traditions
Down
  1. 1. movment of people or animals from one region to another
  2. 2. people who obtain food by hunting animals and gathering plants
  3. 4. aboveground houses made of a heavy clay called adobe
  4. 5. referring to the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome
  5. 6. businesses in which a group of people invest together
  6. 9. clear or ordered thinking
  7. 10. Italian Renaissance artist known for paintings and sculpture
  8. 12. an alliance of Native Americans in northeastern North America
  9. 13. ancestor or animal spirits of the Native Americans of Pacific Northwest
  10. 15. cone-shaped shelters made of animal hides by the nomadic plains people
  11. 16. a disease that spread across Europe, killing 25 million people
  12. 19. climates and landscapes that surround living things
  13. 22. feudal warriors who fought on horseback
  14. 24. North African people who established trade routes through West Africa