Chapter 12

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Across
  1. 3. The capital city of the Incan Empire, located in present-day Peru
  2. 6. Cluster of Native American Stone or adobe dwellings
  3. 7. A people who established a great civilization in Middle America
  4. 9. Native American groups who built earthen mounds
  5. 12. Farming technology in which trees are cut down and burned
  6. 16. People of a powerful South American Empire during the 1400s and 1500s
  7. 17. An official count of people in a certain place at a certain time
Down
  1. 1. Early Native American peoples of the South-West
  2. 2. Capital city of Aztecs
  3. 4. Steplike ledges cut into mountains to make land suitable for farming
  4. 5. Signs and symbols that made up the Mayan writing system
  5. 8. Round room used by the Pueblo peoples for religious ceremonies
  6. 10. Mostly flat and grassy region of Western North America
  7. 11. Corn
  8. 13. A people who lived in the Valley of Mexico
  9. 14. Mountain chain of Western South America
  10. 15. A group of knotted strings used by the Incas to record information