Art of Mexico

2. -a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt.
4. -a member of the indigenous people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.
5. -a hard, typically green stone used for ornaments and implements and consisting of the minerals jadeite or nephrite.
10. -Aztec rain god.
12. -relating to or derived from living matter.
13. -a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to the Pacific coast of Central America
15. -the fact of being who or what a person or thing is.
17. -the society, culture, and way of life of a particular area.
18. -a member of a group of peoples native to southern Mexico and Central America, including the Aztecs.

1. - is a technique used in Mesoamerican agriculture which relies on small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico.
2. -relating to or characterized by belief in or worship of more than one god.
3. -was a large Mexican altepetl in what is now the historic center of Mexico City
6. -an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.
7. -in southern Mexico City, a gritty working-class neighborhood gives way to the famous canals of Xochimilco, the last remnants of a vast water transport system built by the Aztecs.
8. -a raised road or track across low or wet ground.
9. -“sunshine,” “movement of the sun,” and “he who goes forth shining.”
11. -a hard, dark, glasslike volcanic rock formed by the rapid solidification of lava without crystallization.
14. -was the ninth Emperor of the Aztec Empire, reigning from 1502 or 1503 to 1520.
16. - is a vast Mexican archaeological complex northeast of Mexico City.