home work

123456789101112131415
Across
  1. 1. seeds from a small tropical American evergreen tree, from which cocoa, cocoa butter, and chocolate are made.
  2. 4. they were in charge of carrying the quipus, messages and gifts, up to 240 km per day through the chasquis relay system.
  3. 6. gerund or present participle trepanning
  4. 8. an ancient city and capital of the Aztec empire on the present site of Mexico City razed by Cortés
  5. 10. societySpanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now
  6. 12. An ancient ritual sport that involved keeping a rubber ball in play in designated courts.
  7. 14. an ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways
  8. 15. Look up San Lorenzo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Down
  1. 1. Canals are marked by aquatic vegetation and standing water during the wet season and darker vegetation and soils during the dry season.
  2. 2. Aztec sun and war god, one of the two principal deities of Aztec religion, often represented in art as either a hummingbird
  3. 3. Pizarro Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now
  4. 5. from relative obscurity to a great power, his building projects in the city
  5. 7. The most frequently cited examples of mother cultures are Ancient Egypt in the Mediterranean, and the Olmec in Mesoamerica.
  6. 9. an ancient manuscript text in book form.
  7. 11. City- a village in SE Mexico, in Chiapas state: ruins of an ancient Mayan city.
  8. 13. The meaning of the name Aztlan is uncertain. One suggested meaning is place of Herons or place of egrets.