Maya, Aztec, Inca

2. A spectacular Mayan city in modern Guatemala.
3. An isolated and mysterious ancient Incan city high in the Andes mountains.
8. A book containing a version of the Mayan story of creation.
9. A book with pages that can be turned.
10. The Aztec emperor when Cortez arrived in 1519.
12. Incan ruler in 1438, that transforms Cusco into the Incan Empire.
13. In the Incan empire, the requirement that all able bodied subjects work for the state a certain number of days each year.
15. A symbolic picture, especially one used as part of a writing system for carving messages in stone.

1. "The Feathered Serpent" A god of the Toltecs and other Mesoamerican peoples.
2. An association of the city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan, which led to the formation of the Aztec Empire.
4. Farm plots built on the marshy fringes of Tenochtitlan.
5. The first major civilization of central Mexico.
6. An arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information.
7. The capital city of the Aztecs located in the mountains of modern day Mexico city in the middle of Lake Texcoco.
11. A hard, glassy volcanic rock used by early peoples to make sharp weapons.
14. In Incan society ,a small community or family group whose members worked together for the common good.