Across
- 3. the Mayan feathered serpent god, associated with agriculture and sacrifice
- 5. the capital of the Aztec Empire, it was built on Lake Texcoco
- 7. a Mesoamerican empire found in South America, they were the biggest empire in the Americas before the Spanish
- 9. resistance to diseases or viruses found in nature.
- 11. the leader of the Incan empire in the 1530s, he was said to have rejected the Bible for the Spanish and thus conquered shortly after
- 13. an encyclopedia of everything that the Spanish found in the Aztec empire, it was written with the help of natives
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- 1. a hard black gem stone found in volcanic soils that was used to make weapons and tools in Mesoamerica
- 2. the first people to make contact with the Spanish on Hispaniola, they were completely wiped out.
- 4. a Mayan city found in the Yucatan peninsula of Southern Mexico.
- 6. these "floating" gardens were found in Tenochtitlan and helped feed a large population of Aztecs
- 8. a Spanish conquistador that led an attack on Atahualpa and the Incan Empire in 1531
- 10. A Mesoamerican culture based in Southern Mexico, the Aztecs borrowed their calendar from them
- 12. Mesoamerican culture that flourished in present-day Mexico during the 1300-1500s, Montezuma was their leader