South America Vocab (Lessons 1-5)

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Across
  1. 4. To help bring about
  2. 5. Government in which a small group of people rule
  3. 6. Line set by the Treaty of Tordesillas dividing the non-European world into two zones
  4. 7. Mountain range running along the western edge of South America
  5. 9. Someone who wanted to end slavery
  6. 10. A strip of level land cut into a mountain slope that is planted with crops
  7. 11. Group of people who share a distinct culture, language, and identity
  8. 13. Incan system of payment of taxes with labor
  9. 14. System for ranking members of a group according to importance
  10. 15. Creative work with many parts issued over a period of time
  11. 18. Explorer or slave hunter in colonial Brazil
  12. 20. Brazilian music form with roots in African dance rhythms
  13. 22. Treaty signed between Spain and Portugal in 1494 dividing the non-European world
  14. 23. Government taking ownership of a company or industry
  15. 24. Disorder
  16. 26. Record-keeping device made of knotted strings used by the Incas
  17. 27. Accuracy
  18. 30. The result of multiplying one number by another
  19. 31. Planned course of government decision
Down
  1. 1. Expected
  2. 2. Long serial drama made for television
  3. 3. To change the growth of plants or behavior of animals to be useful to humans
  4. 7. Group of related Incan families that pooled resources to meet their needs
  5. 8. Religious festival primarily observed by Roman Catholics
  6. 12. To convert a text into a different language
  7. 16. Income
  8. 17. Person who moves from place to place without a permanent home
  9. 19. To recognize as legal or official
  10. 21. Use of machines to do work that had been done by animals or humans
  11. 25. A tree found in tropical regions whose wood was valuable for the production of purple or red dye
  12. 28. Natural defense against disease
  13. 29. Sudden violent overthrow of a government, often by force