Across
- 3. Jewish prophet
- 5. Formerly Abyssinia, home of multiple powerful African empires
- 9. Legendary Indian emperor, of the Maurya dynasty
- 11. Progenerators of hundreds of African cultures and languages
- 13. Empire that succeeded Rome in eastern Europe
- 14. Roman alphabet
- 16. Legendary New Kingdom pharaoh
- 17. Usual moniker of the Biblical martyr
- 19. Center of the Italian Renaissance
- 20. Indigenous Japanese religion
- 24. Iranian rival, during both the Parthian and Sasanian periods
- 25. Movement that spawned Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anabaptism, etc.
- 27. Southeast Asian home of the Khmer, and former center of the Khmer Empire
- 28. Common seasoning that provided great wealth to West African empires such as Ghana and Mali
- 29. Chinese dynasty and the predominant ethnic group in China
- 30. Renowned Kushite weapon
- 32. Alexander's general and Cleopatra's daddy
- 33. Malinka word for "king", used by the Mali Empire- most famous example is "Musa"
- 36. Invasive nomads that threatened the Goths, the Vandals, the Han Dynasty, and Mulan
- 38. Western European feudal peasant
- 41. Five main Islamic religious practices
- 42. "Great Yuan", grandson of Genghis
- 44. Frankish king that united western Europe after the fall of Rome
- 46. More common moniker for religion founder Siddhartha Gautama
- 47. "reborn", in Vedic religions such as Hinduism
- 48. The natural way of the universe, present in multiple Chinese philosophies
- 52. Capital of the Abbasid Caliphate
- 54. Civilization-spawning river in India
- 55. Powerful Central African kingdom, shared its name with a rainforest and multiple modern-day countries
- 56. Enforcers of feudal Japan
- 57. Trade route that reached its height under the Tang Dynasty
- 58. Ancient Egyptian pictographs
- 60. Indigenous Mesoamerican conquerors
- 61. Religion that developed in medieval Arabia
- 63. First civilization, in Mesopotamia or elsewhere
- 64. Capital of Egypt, built by the Fatimid Caliphate
- 65. Modern-day successor to multiple maritime empires- both Majapahit, centered in Java, and Srivijaya, centered in Sumatra
- 66. Classical Ethiopian empire, spelled without the "x"
Down
- 1. Reunited the Islamic world in order to combat the Crusaders
- 2. Viking, more accurately
- 4. Modern-day incarnation of Joseon
- 6. Mongolic title
- 7. Spoken by the colonizers of Mesoamerica
- 8. Japanese gods and spirits
- 10. One of twelve primary figures in Greek polytheism, or an athlete
- 12. The original Persian Empire
- 15. Rival of Babylon
- 18. Eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, or a Gen Z slang term
- 21. Hebrew religious text
- 22. Christians of the east, post-1054
- 23. __ of civilization, a place where civilization began
- 26. Southeast Asian nation of which the Kingdom of Ayutthaya is the precursor
- 28. Second-largest branch of Islam
- 31. Warlike Ancient Greek city-state
- 34. Describes the period in which humans learned to farm
- 35. City from which the world's first empire emerged
- 37. Mathematical concept developed in classical India
- 39. Persia today
- 40. Rome before Caesar
- 43. Norse watercraft capable of navigating oceans and rivers alike
- 44. Christians of the west, post-1054
- 45. "the magnificent", Ottoman sultan
- 49. Progenerated by the Phoenicians
- 50. "Lost City of the Incas", world wonder in Peru
- 51. Member of the first civilization in Mexico
- 53. Epithet referring to the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires
- 59. Home of "the great"
- 62. First Chinese dynasty after the Mongols, or a priceless vase
