American Indian Civilizations: Chapter 7 Sections 2-3

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Across
  1. 6. the term for the region that includes southern Mexico and Central America
  2. 9. the Aztec man-made islands on which they farmed in Tenochtitlan
  3. 11. this bloody ritual offering was common among the Maya and Aztec religious practices
  4. 14. a principal city of the Maya on the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula
  5. 15. Maya writing is known as _____
  6. 16. the people of the Andes of South America
  7. 17. similar to the Romans, the Inca built thousands of miles of ____ to connect their empire
Down
  1. 1. the people of central Mexico
  2. 2. (p.208) the principal and capital city of the Aztec
  3. 3. (p.212 and on your maps) the famous Inca city in the mountains
  4. 4. the Maya lived in a ____ ____ environment which caused them to clear the forest to be able to farm
  5. 5. (p.205)the Maya pyramid at _____ was the tallest structure in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans
  6. 7. the Maya and Aztec both built _____ which were used as temples for their gods
  7. 8. the Maya did not create a single empire, their society was divided into ____ ____ as in early Mesopotamia
  8. 10. the Mesoamerican civilization centered on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico
  9. 12. the Maya created a complex and accurate ____ based off of their knowledge of astronomy and mathematics
  10. 13. both the Aztec and the Inca were destroyed by Europeans from _____