Indigenous Art

2. was a large Mexican altepetl in what is now the historic center of Mexico City
5. an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority
7. the process by which a society or place reaches an advanced stage of social and cultural development and organization.
8. a track, road or railway on the upper point of an embankment across a low, or wet place, or piece of water
9. an Aztec sun deity of the daytime sky who rules the cardinal direction of east.
11. a hard, dark, glasslike volcanic rock formed by the rapid solidification of lava without crystallization.
12. a hard, typically green stone used for ornaments and implements
13. means "he who is leader because of his fury"
14. the fact of being who or what a person or thing is.
16. relating to or derived from living matter.
17. belief in or worship of more than one god
18. a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt.
19. a heraldic device or symbolic object as a distinctive badge of a nation, organization, or family

1. a technique used in Mesoamerican agriculture which relies on small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico
2. ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico
3. the indigenous people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.
4. a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to the Pacific coast of Central America
6. a member of a group of peoples native to southern Mexico and Central America, including the Aztecs
10. Aztec Rain God
15. a town in central Mexico, noted for its floating gardens