Pre-Columbian Americas

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Across
  1. 1. known for their massive network of roads and living in the Andes Mountains (4),INCA
  2. 5. large Native American house of the Iroquois, built of wooden poles and bark (9)",LONGHOUSE
  3. 6. known for its advanced calendar, use of zero, and pyramids on the Yucatán Peninsula (4)",MAYA
  4. 7. major Aztec ceremonial and political center, built on an island in Lake Texcoco (13)",TENOCHTITLAN
  5. 9. accounting and record-keeping system using knotted strings (5),QUIPU
  6. 10. rectangular patch of floating arable land used by the Aztecs for intensive agriculture (9),CHINAMPA
  7. 12. brick used as a building material in the Southwest (5),ADOBE
  8. 14. of agriculture used by the Inca on steep hillsides to create flat fields and prevent erosion (9),TERRACING
  9. 15. Maya form of writing that used symbolic figures to represent sounds and words (5),GLYPH
Down
  1. 1. flat-topped hill with steep sides, common in the North American Southwest (4)",MESA
  2. 2. tent made by stretching buffalo skins over wooden poles, used by Plains people (5)",TEPEE
  3. 3. that settled in the Valley of Mexico around 1300 (5),AZTEC
  4. 4. Inca capital city, located high in the Andes Mountains (5)",CUZCO
  5. 7. basic food crop in the Americas that supported permanent settlements (5),MAIZE
  6. 8. ruler who launched a campaign of conquest and extended the empire (9),PACHACUTI
  7. 11. stretching from central Mexico to Central America, where the Maya and Aztec flourished (11)",MESOAMERICA
  8. 13. site known for its perfectly fitted stone masonry and high-altitude location; a royal estate for Pachacuti (11),MACHUPICCHU
  9. 15. group of related families; part of the social structure of many Native American groups, such as the Iroquois (4)",CLAN