Across
- 2. City Area where the Aztec capital once stood
- 4. Aztec creation god
- 7. Solar calendar used by the Mayas
- 9. de Alvarado Sent by Cortés to conquer the Mayas in Guatemala in 1523
- 10. II Aztec ruler who greeted Cortés with gifts of gold and other treasures
- 11. Guatemala One of the oldest and greatest Mayan centers with thousands of structures and artifacts.
- 12. A cluster of stars used to indicate to the Aztecs that the earth would not end
- 15. Round A Mayan calendar with specific numbers and day names that coincided once every 52 years
- 16. Webs of knots used by the Incans to record goods, services, and other numerical data
- 17. Bingham Discovered the ruins of the Incan city of Machu Picchu in 1911
Down
- 1. Books written by Aztec scribes to keep track of history and their calendar
- 3. Symbols used by the Aztecs in their writing
- 4. Aztec creation goddess
- 5. Mayan calendar that functioned as a 260-day sacred almanac
- 6. Cortés Spanish explorer who landed on the Gulf of Mexico in 1519
- 8. Pizarro / Spanish explorer who invaded the Incan Empire in 1532
- 13. Stone Aztec legends to explain celestial phenomena, natural disasters, and seasonal cycles
- 14. Codex A Mayan book with examples of their numbers from the eleventh century
- 16. camayoc Expert Incan accountants