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