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  1. 2. Spanish and Portuguese explorers and soldiers
  2. 4. title for the Supreme Ruler of the Incas
  3. 6. symbols used in the Mayan writing system
  4. 11. Latin America is a region of countries that share a common___
  5. 14. the capital of the Incan Empire
  6. 15. Central America is a region in the ___ American continent
  7. 16. the capital of Peru
  8. 17. a series of knotted ropes used to keep records
  9. 18. the Spanish colonizer who captured the Incans
  10. 19. the Mayans had a celestial calendar and one based off ___ events
  11. 21. the reason many indigenous people died after Europeans arrived in the Americas
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  1. 1. a Portuguese speaking country in South America
  2. 3. the ___ god was one of the most important gods in the Mayan religion
  3. 5. the last Incan ruler after the Spanish came
  4. 7. Both Mayans and Incans were____ meaning they believed in many gods
  5. 8. Mayans used slaves to perform human _____ to please their gods
  6. 9. Mayan pyramids with temples at the top
  7. 10. the famous Incan city hidden in the Andes
  8. 12. Mayans lived in northern Central American countries and the southern part of ____
  9. 13. The Spanish came to the Americas for God, ____ and Glory
  10. 20. the Incan sun god