Aztecs

3. a pictorial book made by the pre-Columbian Aztecs and their descendants
4. the lake on which the Aztecs built their capital city.
6. the language that is still actively used by over 1.5 million people in modern Mexico
9. what did Cortez understand would be just as important as military technology before arrival in Tenochtitlan
11. an Indigenous Nahua woman who served as the primary interpreter, advisor, and consort for Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés
12. a Spanish conqueror
15. 16th-century Spanish conquistador who led the military expedition that overthrew the Aztec Empire and claimed mainland Mexico for Spain.
16. the introduced disease that wiped out much of the Aztec population
17. the animal that is perched on a cactus on the Mexican flag

1. the magnificent capital city of the Aztec Empire.
2. the ruler of the Aztec empire during the Spanish conquest that was held hostage inside the Spanish headquarters
5. small, artificial, rectangular island farms built on shallow lake beds or wetlands for intensive agriculture
7. the belief of the era that they lived in
8. the leader of the 2nd rebellion in the mexican war of independence
10. what happened when cortez returned to Tenochtitlan with tens of thousands of allies
13. what camp hated the Aztecs and cortes had no problem persuading to help him in his cause
14. what happened due to Spanish soldiers in an important aztec religious ceremony