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