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