Across
- 6. artificial island used to cultivate crops
- 7. an embankment or other construction made of earth
- 9. the largest Anasazi pueblo, built in New Mexico
- 13. a culture that thrived in the Andean region from about 200 B.C. to A.D. 600
- 14. largest underground chamber used for religious ceremonies and political meeting
- 15. in the ancient world, a tall, commemorative monument that was often decorated
- 18. a region in North America in which civilizations with common cultural features developed before Europeans entered the continent
- 19. a mixture of plant and clay, put in the sun to harden, then used for building
- 20. a culture that thrived in the Andean region from about A.D. 200- A.D. 1000
- 22. ceremonial gift- giving by people of high ranks and wealth
- 24. _Inca the title of the Inca emperor
- 25. payment that conquered peoples may be forced to pay their conquerors
Down
- 1. a culture that thrived in the Andean region from about 400 B.C. TO A.D.600
- 2. knotted strings used by Inca officials for record- keeping
- 3. a culture that thrived in the Andean region from about 900 B.C. to 200 B.C.
- 4. Native American village of the United States Southwest
- 5. in which the numerous Mesoamerican civilization
- 8. capital city of the Inca empire
- 10. a culture that thrived in the Andean region from about A.D. 600- A.D. 1000
- 11. the Inca sun god
- 12. the largest Anasazi cliffdwellings in the United States Southwest
- 16. a close- knit empire
- 17. corn
- 21. the earliest American civilization
- 23. the largest earthwork of the Mississippian culture
