Across
- 2. / Capital city of the Inca
- 5. / Powerful empire in South America when the Spanish arrived
- 7. / The Maya played this ball game in a large court surrounded by stone walls
- 9. / the basic unit of the Inca community
- 10. / picture writing used by the Maya
- 12. / the Inca had to pay a labor_____ to the government each year
- 16. / the Maya, Aztec, and Inca did not make use of this round invention
- 17. / a Maya book made from a number of pages folded up in a zig zag pattern
- 20. / this famous food came from the Americas and the cacao seed
- 21. / ___________ Picchu was a hidden Inca city never discovered by the Spanish
- 22. / people who conquered the Aztec and Inca
- 23. / the staple food for all 3 civilizations
- 24. / The Maya____________ predicted the end of world on Dec. 21, 2012
- 25. / El____________ is a famous pyramid found in the Maya city of Chichen Itza
- 26. / Francisco ____________ conquered the Inca Emprire
Down
- 1. / the Inca god Inti was the god of the ______
- 3. / Spanish explorers, treasure hunters, and conquerors
- 4. / capital of the Aztec empire
- 6. / the Inca built these throughout their empire to enable communication by messenger runner
- 8. / Aztec language
- 11. / he conquered the Aztecs
- 13. / modern day country where the Aztec lived
- 14. / name for the Aztec king
- 15. / king of the Aztec when the Spanish arrived
- 18. / monument made by the Maya and Aztec with a temple on top to their gods
- 19. / the king of the Inca was know as the _______ Inca
- 22. / an infectious disease brought to the Americas by the Spanish
