The Ancient Civilizations of the Americas

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Across
  1. 5. supreme power held by a single person
  2. 7. a device consisting of a rope with knotted strings of various colors attached used by the Incans for record keeping
  3. 8. their capital city was on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco
  4. 10. a state consisting of cities that govern themselves and the surrounding area independently
  5. 11. a type of corn
  6. 12. relating to or being a people who are the original, earliest known inhabitants of a region, or are their descendants
Down
  1. 1. a person who acts as a link between the natural and supernatural worlds
  2. 2. a group of families working together and sharing possessions
  3. 3. the Aztecs created floating _______ to grow their food
  4. 4. the area extending from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua in which diverse pre-Columbian civilizations flourished
  5. 6. an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached
  6. 9. a small tropical American evergreen tree; the seeds are used as a source of cocoa, chocolate, etc.
  7. 13. a pictograph or hieroglyphic
  8. 14. "rubber people"