The Maya (Ch. 19, Sec. 1: p. 582-589)

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Across
  1. 2. While today, Maya buildings are plain, gray ____ structures, they were once brightly colored and decorated.
  2. 5. The Maya did NOT have horses, oxen or _____ vehicles.
  3. 7. Slash-and-burn agriculture is a farming method in which trees are ___ and the ash fertilizes the soil.
  4. 10. The Maya built these for observing the sky.
  5. 14. The Maya developed an advanced writing system that used _____.
  6. 15. Most Maya people lived in _____, not near the center of the city.
  7. 16. The Maya civilization developed in a region called ___ that extends south from central Mexico into northern Central America.
  8. 18. The Mayan numbering system differed from the European system because it included a numeral for ____.
  9. 19. One of the 2 ways people migrated to the Americas from Asia: by ___.
Down
  1. 1. The Maya believed that their priests and kings could ___ with the gods.
  2. 3. The Maya were excellent astronomers and plotted the movement of the sun, moon, and planets without the use of these.
  3. 4. The Maya built these on top of their pyramids
  4. 6. One of the most startling Mayan religious practices was _____.
  5. 8. The Maya developed three distinct types of ______ for religious festivals, farming tasks and historical dates.
  6. 9. One of the 2 reasons why the great Maya cities fell.
  7. 11. Feathers from this colorful tropical bird were traded by the Maya.
  8. 12. The soil in the rain forests was ____.
  9. 13. Temples were built on these so that they could be closer to the gods in heaven.
  10. 17. Carved glyphs that celebrate rulers and their deeds have been preserved on stone monuments called ____.