Across
- 4. Time before Columbus arrived
- 9. A motivation
- 10. Soldiers, explorers, and adventurers at the service of the Spanish Empire and Portuguese Empire
- 11. Passing of knowledge, beliefs and stories through speaking (two words)
- 14. History marked by notable events
- 15. What Katniss volunteered as
- 16. The collective term for a body of troops stationed in a particular location
- 17. Rock formed of cooled lava
Down
- 1. Also called high plain or tableland
- 2. The Aztecs used these to write
- 3. A physical area with specific traits that determine its plants and animals (two words)
- 5. Belief that a country should maintain a strong military force
- 6. Aztecs lived _________ lives for 200 years
- 7. The Dead Sea has very high ______ levels
- 8. Another word for fate
- 12. Meso-American city-state
- 13. When a deity or spirit takes a physical form
