1.4) Maya, Aztec, and Inca Name_____________________________

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  1. 4. "The Feathered Serpent" A god of the Toltecs and other Mesoamerican peoples.
  2. 8. A spectacular Mayan city in modern Guatemala.
  3. 9. In Incan society ,a small community or family group whose members worked together for the common good.
  4. 10. An isolated and mysterious ancient Incan city high in the Andes mountains.
  5. 13. A hard, glassy volcanic rock used by early peoples to make sharp weapons.
  6. 15. A book containing a version of the Mayan story of creation.
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  1. 1. The capital city of the Aztecs located in the mountains of modern day Mexico city in the middle of Lake Texcoco.
  2. 2. In the Incan empire, the requirement that all able bodied subjects work for the state a certain number of days each year.
  3. 3. An arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information.
  4. 5. An association of the city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan, which led to the formation of the Aztec Empire.
  5. 6. The first major civilization of central Mexico.
  6. 7. The Aztec emperor when Cortez arrived in 1519.
  7. 11. Farm plots built on the marshy fringes of Tenochtitlan.
  8. 12. A book with pages that can be turned.
  9. 14. A symbolic picture, especially one used as part of a writing system for carving messages in stone.
  10. 15. Incan ruler in 1438, that transforms Cusco into the Incan Empire.