The World Before the 1600s

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Across
  1. 5. Emperor, military commander, and political reformer
  2. 7. Included 12 million people at its height
  3. 10. Tenth Mansa of the wealthy West African Islamic Mali Emperor
  4. 15. Women collected wild plants and eggs while men hunted.
  5. 16. People believed to have spiritual and healing powers
  6. 19. Completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean
  7. 20. Used small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land
  8. 22. Multistory adobe building / Group that inherited Anasazi ways
  9. 23. Often at war over territory
  10. 27. Exchange of plants, animals, languages, and technology
  11. 31. History passed down by storytellers
  12. 33. Scandinavian seafaring pirates and traders
Down
  1. 1. Cutting and burning vegetation
  2. 2. Point in time when nomads began to settle
  3. 3. Document signed in 1215 by King John
  4. 4. Ancestry
  5. 6. Group of people related by blood
  6. 8. Large wooden buildings with a central aisle and living spaces on either side
  7. 9. War between Christinas and Muslims
  8. 11. Blood relations
  9. 12. Painted carvings of warriors, gods, and jaguars decorated their buildings
  10. 13. Property was inherited through the mother
  11. 14. Exchange of goods without using money
  12. 17. Moves from place to place to follow animals
  13. 18. First known European to have set foot on North America
  14. 21. Certain people do certain jobs
  15. 24. The action or process of setting among and establsihing control over land
  16. 25. The mother culture of Mesoamerica
  17. 26. Large-scale farms
  18. 28. 500 AD to 1500
  19. 29. Settled in the area where present day Arizon and Colorado are
  20. 30. Skilled wood-workers
  21. 32. Earned the name of Warlike Mexica