THE AZTECS

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  1. 6. - creative art, especially visual art, whose products are to be appreciated primarily or solely for their imaginative, aesthetic, or intellectual content.
  2. 7. - noun a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person; verb enclose in a shrine
  3. 10. - adj. lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; lacking sufficient water or rainfall
  4. 11. - A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government.
  5. 12. - was the second Aztec emperor and fifth king of Tenochtitlan. During his reign, the Aztec Empire was consolidated, major expansion was undertaken, and Tenochtitlan started becoming the dominant partner of the Aztec Triple Alliance.
  6. 15. - noun a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids; a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it; the quantity that a basin will hold; a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face; the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries
  7. 16. - adj. relating to rural matters
  8. 18. - noun a road that is raised above water or marshland or sand; verb pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles; provide with a causeway
  9. 19. - noun a person who delivers a speech or oration
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  1. 1. - noun an amount beyond the minimum necessary; the blank space that surrounds the text on a page; the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities; the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary; a strip near the boundary of an object; a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits; (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold
  2. 2. - noun the act of taking something from someone unlawfully
  3. 3. - adj. characteristic of the classical artistic and literary traditions; adhering to established standards and principles; noun a creation of the highest excellence; an artist who has created classic works
  4. 4. - is a type of Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico.
  5. 5. - noun large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed; a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
  6. 8. - meaning "Coyote in fast" or "Coyote who Fasts") (April 28, 1402 – June 4, 1472) was a philosopher, warrior, architect, poet and ruler (tlatoani) of the city-state of Texcoco in pre-Columbian era Mexico.
  7. 9. - adj. used of soldiers hired by a foreign army; profit oriented; marked by materialism; noun a person hired to fight for another country than their own
  8. 13. - adj. highly unusual or rare but not the single instance; (followed by `to') applying exclusively to a given category or condition or locality; radically distinctive and without equal; the single one of its kind
  9. 14. - noun payment by one nation for protection by another; something given or done as an expression of esteem; payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence
  10. 17. - noun royal authority; the dominion of a monarch; the period during which a monarch is sovereign; a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful; verb have sovereign power; be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance