Across
- 6. an area of dense jungle in southeastern Mexico, extending into the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea
- 7. a region that extends southeastward from central Mexico and includes the countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, and parts of Honduras and Nicaragua
- 10. having a warm and rainy climate
- 12. a symbol, usually carved or engraved, that represents a syllable or a whole word
- 13. an ancient culture that inhabited what is now the northern coast of Peru between A.D. 100 and 700
- 14. relating to a type of agriculture in which patches of land are prepared for planting by cutting down and burning the natural vegetation
- 16. a culture that flourished between 900 and 200 B.C. in the Andes of Peru
- 17. a culture that shapes and influences the customs and ideas of later cultures
Down
- 1. an underground layer of sand, gravel, or spongy rock that contains water
- 2. a carved stone slab set upright in the ground, usually commemorating a person or event
- 3. a type of corn grown by Native American civilizations
- 4. a civilization of present-day southern Mexico and northern Central America, which reached its height from A.D. 250 to 900
- 5. a woven or knitted cloth
- 8. a narrow strip of land that connects two larger landmasses
- 9. an ancient culture that arose near what is now the southern coast of Peru and prospered from 200 B.C. to A.D. 600
- 11. the earliest known Meso-American culture, which flourished from 1200 to 400 B.C. and was centered along the Gulf Coast of what is now southern Mexico
- 15. a book or the type used by early Meso-American civilizations to record important historical events