The Early Americas

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