Kids Discover Aztecs
Across
- 2. (4)the mural "The Great City of Tenochtitlan" was painted by Diego...
- 9. (7)raids to find sacrificial victims were called wars of what?
- 10. (16)the symbols of Tenochtitlan is what bird sitting on a cactus?
- 12. (15)one of the diseases brought to Mexico by Europeans was ...
- 13. (4)at the top of society was a ruler called the...
- 14. (12)ball players could hit the ball with any part of the body except their ______
- 16. (3)the word for the artificial causeways created by the Aztecs
- 17. (8)Aztecs believed they lived in the time of the _______ sun
- 18. (6)the coming of what god would mark the end of the Aztec peoples?
- 20. (13)during celebrations, Aztecs stained their teeth red or __________
- 23. (17)what English word comes from the Aztec word xocatl?
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- 1. (14)according to legend, Montezuma saw the Spanish coming by looking at a bird with a ______ in its head
- 3. (16)the ceremony performed in Veracruz where men dressed as birds and circle a pole 13 times is called what?
- 4. (5)commoners ate rabbits, deer, ducks, and ...
- 5. (17)people descended from the Aztec are called what?
- 6. (16)in 1978, under the National Palace was found a statue of an Aztec...
- 7. (2)the greatest city in the Aztec empire
- 8. (2)picture drawings painted on deerskin or tree bark
- 11. (12)what was the name of the ballgame played by Aztecs?
- 14. (6)the god of war was named what?
- 15. (8)the five days at the end of the year were called ______ days
- 19. (5)jaguar warriors dressed in the skins of what animals?
- 21. (9)what day on the Aztec calendar comes after dog and before jaguar?
- 22. (2)a group of glyphs in called a...