Across
- 6. The world's longest range of mountains and runs north to south along the Pacific Ring of Fire and seven countries from Venezuela to Chile
- 9. The largest empire in pre-Columbian America
- 11. A gate found at the entrance of Shinto shrines
- 12. Native American people who dominated northern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century
- 14. The belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence
Down
- 1. The multi-tiered Japanese structure that is a prominent secondary feature of Japanese temples and gardens
- 2. The religious and administrative capital of the Inca Empire which flourished in ancient Peru
- 3. Ancestors who built an ancient civilization that stretched across much of Central America
- 4. Usually consisted of colored, spun and plied thread or strings from llama hair
- 5. A narrow strip of land that connects two larger landmasses and separates two bodies of water
- 7. Ancient capital of the Aztec empire
- 8. Oldest religion in Japan
- 10. Creates steps or terraces into mountains or hillsides to create arable land
- 13. A long and narrow floating field on a shallow lake bed, artificially built up by layering soil, sediment, and decaying vegetation and used, especially by the Aztecs, to grow crops