The Early Americas

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Across
  1. 2. a system similar to Egyptian Hieroglyphics
  2. 4. made of rock and volcanic activity, traded throughout the Mayan world
  3. 5. a group of people who formed urban civilizations in mesoamerica, 1200 B.C.E
  4. 7. the king, warriors, priests and merchants made this group
  5. 9. Height of the Mayans, from 250 AD to 900 AD
  6. 10. a people who started off in the lowlands region of Mesoamerica around 1000 B.C.E
  7. 12. architectural skills, discoveries in science and math
Down
  1. 1. a word for a vegetable, easily grown in Mesoamerica's climate
  2. 2. one theory as to why the Mayans declined
  3. 3. other people in Mayan society, one major sub-group being farmers
  4. 6. a region that includes the southern part of mexico and parts of central america
  5. 8. another vegetable grown, this time in the Andes of S. America
  6. 11. a building to study astronomy
  7. 13. exchanging goods, this time as the stones go to the lowlands and food to the highlands