This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Ancient Civilizations has 25 clues. Answers range from 4 to 14 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
Recognized as the Six Nations at Albany, New York in 1722.
One of the four major cultures of the American Southwest and northern Mexico in Southwestern archaeology.
a type of Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangular areas to grow crops on shallow lake beds in Mexico.
a large artificial bank of soil made as a defense.
earliest known major civilization in Mexico
a Mesoamerican civilization noted for its hieroglyphic script
known as Mexica culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521
the largest empire in pre-Columbian America
a clan that constituted the basic socioeconomic unit of Inca society
A strong system of laws governed the economic operations of the Aztec Empire
a stone or wooden slab erected in the ancient world as a monument.
a room used by Puebloans for religious rituals and political meetings.
located in a strategic position near the confluence of the Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois rivers.
a gift-giving feast practiced by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States,
the largest and best-known great house built between AD 828 and 1126.
a large grain plant first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago
an Incan citadel set high in the Andes Mountains in Peru, above the Urubamba River valley.
one of twenty provinces of the Ancash Region in Peru
a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada and Alaska.
a city in southeastern Peru, near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range
a building material made from earth and other organic materials.
a civilization that flourished in northern Peru from about 100 to 700 AD
entire villages built in the sides of cliffs in southwestern Colorado.
a large Mexica city-state on an island in Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico.
a method used by the Incas and other ancient Andean cultures to keep records and communicate information