Ancient India

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Country in Asia with the Taj Mahal (5)
  2. 7. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land (plural) (6)
  3. 9. A large and distinctive landmass that is a distinct part of some continent (12)
  4. 12. A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when (7)
  5. 13. A region whose eastern part is now Bangladesh and whose western part is included in India (6)
  6. 14. Long stream of water flowing to the sea (5)
  7. 15. An Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern India and then southwest through (5)
  8. 16. Dry land with very little rain (6)

Down

  1. 1. A native or inhabitant of ___ or India (5)
  2. 2. An Asian river (6)
  3. 4. The prevailing psychological state (7)
  4. 5. Capable of reproducing (7)
  5. 6. The number of inhabitants in a given place (10)
  6. 8. A large number or amount or extent (plural) (9)
  7. 10. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river (6)
  8. 11. An acute insufficiency (6)