American and Chinese Post-Classical Civilizations
Across
- 2. "tax" owed by conquered peoples of the Americas to their Aztec conquerors
- 10. island capital of the Aztec Empire
- 11. located in Central Mexico, conquered by Spaniards in 16th century AD
- 13. practiced by Mississippians, Toltec, Aztec, and Inca religion
- 15. unique Chinese practice of limiting mobility of women...thus more effectively asserting patriarchy
- 16. Inca system of record keeping based on knotted strings
- 18. the mountain range which was home to the Inca
- 19. Italian merchant who traveled to China...wrote on Chinese wealth and power
- 21. religion that was popular during Han China but became officially persecuted under the Tang and Song
Down
- 1. built in the Tang era to link northern and southern Chinese agricultural zones
- 3. Chinese invention that greatly aided in easing trade practices, began concept of modern banking
- 4. labor system of the Inca where communities owed labor to the state
- 5. Aztec clan system, social hierarchy
- 6. Chinese ships, used compasses and armed with gunpowder weapons
- 7. culture of mound building peoples of N.America...influenced by Toltec
- 8. like those in East Asia, the Inca built these to farm mountainous terrain
- 9. Chinese philosophy of the Tang / Song period that focused on learning and personal morality
- 12. floating fields of the Aztec
- 14. first major militaristic Central Mexican civilization...capital at Tula
- 17. like the Romans, the Inca built ____ to manage their empire
- 20. both the Chinese and European craftsmen were regulated by these