8th Grade History Quarter 2 Exam Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. Burning plants to reintroduce nutrients into soil for farming.
  2. 5. Capital city of the Inca Empire.
  3. 6. Region where the Inca lived.
  4. 9. Inca accounting system using threads and knots.
  5. 13. Sign from a god that Aztecs found their home.
  6. 14. City built on top of Tenochtitlan after it was destroyed.
  7. 15. Emperor who greatly expanded the Inca Empire.
  8. 17. Capital city of the Aztec Empire.
  9. 24. Helped Cortes communicate with Native Americans
  10. 25. King of the Aztecs when Cortes arrived.
  11. 26. Region where the Maya lived.
  12. 27. Arrived in Tenochtitlan in 1519.
Down
  1. 1. Practiced by Maya and Aztecs to keep their gods happy.
  2. 2. King of the Inca when Pizarro arrived.
  3. 3. Language spoken by the Aztecs.
  4. 7. Moctezuma may have believed Cortes was this god.
  5. 8. Constructed by the Aztecs so people could walk from the mainland to Tenochtitlan.
  6. 10. Created by the Maya to track the seasons for farming.
  7. 11. Tenochtitlan was an island on Lake ____________.
  8. 12. Killed many Inca before the Spanish arrived.
  9. 16. Animal introduced to the Americas by the Spanish.
  10. 18. May have been a getaway resort for wealthy Incas.
  11. 19. Spanish took this from Moctezuma's treasure room.
  12. 20. Region of the Americas where both the Maya and Aztecs were located.
  13. 21. Important crop for the Maya, Inca, and Aztecs.
  14. 22. Name of an early Aztec tribe.
  15. 23. Met with Atahualpa in 1532.