ELA MAYA END-OF-UNIT ASSESSMENT

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Across
  1. 2. A sudden and widespread illness.
  2. 4. Because they developed before Christopher Columbus's first voyage, the Maya, Inca, and Aztec civilizations are called pre-__________________
  3. 6. This Spanish Explorer contributed to the decline of the Aztec civilization.
  4. 10. (2 words) The Maya, Aztec, and Inca all told these to explain how the Earth and people were created
  5. 15. Something that is holy or deserving of respect
  6. 16. The name of the capital city of the Aztec civilization
  7. 19. To adapt to their environments, what did the Aztec and Inca build to carry water.
  8. 21. (Truth or False) Nobody knows for sure why the Maya civilization declined
  9. 22. The short-form of the word hieroglyphs
  10. 24. Things that exist or live naturally in a particular place.
  11. 26. This early civilization lived in Central America
  12. 27. Ancient books of handwritten text (singular is codex)
  13. 28. In the Aztec myth, what was the eagle sitting on?
Down
  1. 1. Together, Central America and parts of Mexico were called _______________.
  2. 3. Another word for the tribute the Aztec and Inca citizens had to pay to their rulers
  3. 5. The Maya used "slash and __________" techniques to help grow their crops.
  4. 7. To farm on the mountainside, the Inca built these to grow their crops.
  5. 8. An Aztec myth said the Aztecs would know where to build their city when they found an eagle with what in its mouth?
  6. 9. The Aztec constantly waged war against other city-states to exapand their what?
  7. 11. This early civilization lived in Mexico
  8. 12. This early civilization lived in South America
  9. 13. The Aztec built their civilization at the same time as what other ancient civilation?
  10. 14. These were proof that the Maya had a writing system
  11. 17. The Aztec, Inca, and Maya all believed in and worshipped many ____________.
  12. 18. The Aztecs used these floating islands to grow crops.
  13. 20. The name of the capital city of the Inca civilization
  14. 23. These mountains are were the Inca lived in Peru
  15. 25. Pizzaro contributed to the decline of this civilization.