Maya, Aztec, and Inca

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