The Aztecs

6. This place was the home of the Aztec ruler, but also had government offices, shrines, courts, storerooms, gardens, and courtyards.
7. The most vital business of the Aztec Empire.
9. This was the center of Aztec life and helped them gain more tribute.
11. This group was amazed by the majestic Aztec city when it arrived in Tenochtitlan in 1519.
15. this is how the island of Tenochtitlan was linked to the mainland.
17. What the Aztecs called themselves when they were a nomadic group of hunter-gatherers.
18. The animal that the Aztecs believed they would see when they found the place that the gods wanted them to settle.
19. Where the Aztec Empire arose.
22. They Teotihuacans' feathered serpent god.
23. How the Aztecs got fresh water for irrigation.

1. The job that the Aztecs were given when they arrived at the Valley of Mexico.
2. Tenochtitlan was this large.
3. The Aztecs formed this with two other city-states to fight and defeat the Tepanecs.
4. Floating gardens
5. One of the civilizations that came before the Aztecs.
8. This happened in front of the shrines on top of the Great Temple.
10. Some, not most, captured soldiers ended up as these.
12. The name of the lake where the Aztecs settled.
13. The place of the fruit of the prickly pear cactus.
14. The Aztecs let their conquered cities remain mostly _________________.
15. The alliance with this group gave the Aztecs land, trading connections and wealth.
16. this Aztec leader burned records about the humble origins of the Aztecs.
20. This group made allies of the Aztecs' enemies when they invaded Mexico in 1519.
21. The Aztecs married into this surviving royal line.