Across
- 1. / A day; also used as a mantra.
- 3. / An ethnic group who after a great migration from the north (Utah), settled in the lake region at Tenochitlan and Tlateloco and came to dominate the Triple Alliance, or Aztec empire.
- 7. / a large vertical wooden drum.
- 9. / "He Who Makes the Plants Spring UP," an important rain and fertility deity.
- 14. / "Chief speaker," the supreme ruler.
- 15. / Royal estate and religious retreat
Down
- 2. / Incan sun god
- 4. / the mythical homeland from where the Mexica began their migration.
- 5. / The capital city of the Triple Alliance founded by the Mexica around 1325, located on an island in the lake system of the Basin of Mexico.
- 6. / The yearly 365-day calendar
- 8. / a person of mixed Indian and European ancestry.
- 10. / a productive agricultural system developed in the lake region based on intensive cultivation of long, rectangular gardens made from reclaimed swampland.
- 11. / An important plant similar to aloe from which paper, needles, clothing, and a ritualdrink called pulque are made.
- 12. / The gods of the four directions
- 13. / Incan capital city; was destroyed and rebuilt