Chapter 12: Early Civilizations of the Americas

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Across
  1. 3. Mostly flat and grassy region of western North America
  2. 6. Native American groups who built earthen mounds
  3. 8. The capital city of the Incan Empire
  4. 10. A farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned
  5. 12. An official count of people
  6. 14. Signs and symbols that made up the Mayan writing system
  7. 16. Steplike ledges cut into mountains to make land suitable for farming
  8. 17. People who established a great civilizations in Middle America
Down
  1. 1. Round room used by the Pueblo peoples of religious ceremonies
  2. 2. Group of knotted strings used by the Incas to record information
  3. 4. Early Native American peoples of the Southwest
  4. 5. Mountain chain of western South America
  5. 7. People who lived in the Valley of Mexico
  6. 9. Corn
  7. 11. People of a powerful South American empire during the 1400s and 1500s
  8. 13. Capital city of the Aztecs
  9. 15. Cluster of Native American stone or adobe dwellings