Chapter 3: Early Civilizations of the Americas Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. a mountain chain that snakes along the western coast of the continent
  2. 4. a people who established a great civilization in Middle America
  3. 5. steplike ledges cut into mountains to make land suitable for farming
  4. 10. capital city of the Aztecs
  5. 12. the capital city of the Incan Empire
  6. 13. a round room used by the Pueblo peoples for religious ceremonies
  7. 14. a people who lived in the Valley of Mexico
  8. 15. an official count of people in a certain place at a certain time
  9. 16. the signs and symbols that made up the Mayan writing system
Down
  1. 1. people of a powerful empire that ruled part of South America in the 1400s and 1500s
  2. 2. a farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land
  3. 6. corn
  4. 7. Native American groups who built earthen mounds
  5. 8. a mostly flat and grassy region of western North America
  6. 9. a group of knotted strings used by the Incas to record information
  7. 11. one of the ancient Native American peoples of the Southwest
  8. 17. a cluster of Native American stone or adobe dwellings