Unit 3 World History Crossword Puzzle

3. one of the most powerful leaders of his time and was to make Mali's name renowned throughout the European and Islamic countries.
6. ninth Aztec emperor of Mexico
7. a feathered serpent, a flying reptile (much like a dragon), who was a boundary-maker (and transgressor) between earth and sky
9. the Spanish word for "village" or "town
10. an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry
12. a symbolic figure or a character (as in the Mayan system of writing) usually incised or carved in relief.
13. ancient outsiders.
16. an ancient book, consisting of one or more quires of sheets of papyrus or parchment folded together to form a group of leaves, or pages.
17. the Mayan story of the creation and of the Hero Twins and their victory over the lords of Xibalba (the underworld)
18. an American Indian confederacy originally of New York consisting of the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca and later including the Tuscarora.
19. igneous rock occurring as a natural glass formed by the rapid cooling of viscous lava from volcanoes

1. Home of the prestigious Koranic Sankore University and other madrasas
2. a forced-labor draft imposed by the Spaniards on the indigenous inhabitants of Peru.
4. Native American people who dominated northern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century
5. of or relating to Mississippi, its people, or the Mississippi River
7. recording devices used by the Inka Empire, the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.
8. secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
11. a complex of Mayan ruins deep in the rainforests of northern Guatemala.
14. a sib or clan that constituted the basic socioeconomic unit of Inca society
15. 9th Inca ruler (r. 1438 - 1471 CE) who founded their empire with conquests in the Cuzco Valley and beyond.