Latin American History Unit 1 Vocab Review

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Across
  1. 3. the Mayan feathered serpent god, associated with agriculture and sacrifice
  2. 5. the capital of the Aztec Empire, it was built on Lake Texcoco
  3. 7. a Mesoamerican empire found in South America, they were the biggest empire in the Americas before the Spanish
  4. 9. resistance to diseases or viruses found in nature.
  5. 11. the leader of the Incan empire in the 1530s, he was said to have rejected the Bible for the Spanish and thus conquered shortly after
  6. 13. an encyclopedia of everything that the Spanish found in the Aztec empire, it was written with the help of natives
Down
  1. 1. a hard black gem stone found in volcanic soils that was used to make weapons and tools in Mesoamerica
  2. 2. the first people to make contact with the Spanish on Hispaniola, they were completely wiped out.
  3. 4. a Mayan city found in the Yucatan peninsula of Southern Mexico.
  4. 6. these "floating" gardens were found in Tenochtitlan and helped feed a large population of Aztecs
  5. 8. a Spanish conquistador that led an attack on Atahualpa and the Incan Empire in 1531
  6. 10. A Mesoamerican culture based in Southern Mexico, the Aztecs borrowed their calendar from them
  7. 12. Mesoamerican culture that flourished in present-day Mexico during the 1300-1500s, Montezuma was their leader