This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Ancient Civilizations has 20 clues. Answers range from 5 to 13 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
a line of hereditary rulers of a country
a ruler in ancient Egypt
a stylized picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound, as found in ancient Egyptian and other writing systems
a material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant
a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority
denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems
the system of law concerned with private relations between members of a community
a cashless economic system in which services and goods are traded at negotiated rates
Belief in one god
moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity
a large, distinguishable part of a continent, such as North America or southern Africa
a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia
each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society
a member of the highest Hindu caste, that of the priesthood
an Indian king or prince
a loosely compacted yellowish-gray deposit of windblown sediment of which extensive deposits occur
pieces of ox scapula or turtle plastron, which were used for pyromancy – a form of divination
decorative handwriting or handwritten lettering
rises to a political, cultural, and economic peak and then, because of moral corruption, declines, loses the Mandate of Heaven, and falls, only to be replaced
the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service,