Rise and Fall of Civilizations 2

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A major African ___ (10)
  2. 9. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea (5)
  3. 11. An ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea (9)
  4. 13. Beautiful handwriting (11)
  5. 14. A sale of miscellany (6)
  6. 15. A holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal (5)
  7. 16. The ancient indigenous religion of Japan lacking formal dogma (6)

Down

  1. 1. A mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery (9)
  2. 2. A republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands (9)
  3. 3. A group of many islands in a large body of water (11)
  4. 5. An antiquity that has survived from the distant past (5)
  5. 6. An Asian peninsula separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan (5)
  6. 7. A region in northeastern China (9)
  7. 8. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea (7)
  8. 10. A fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC (9)
  9. 12. Island country in Asia with Tokyo as its capital (5)