The Americas

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Across
  1. 1. a system of knotted strings
  2. 3. what civilization had risen on the Yucatan Peninsula
  3. 6. goods or money paid by conquered peoples to their conquerors
  4. 9. the name used for areas of Mexico and Central America where ancient empires flourished
  5. 11. Incan ruler who launched a campaign of conquest
  6. 12. groups of related families
  7. 14. pictures
  8. 15. was built on a lofty hilltop surrounded by mountain peaks
  9. 17. corn
  10. 18. how the Maya appease their gods
Down
  1. 2. cultivated beans, corn and squash along the river valleys of the eastern Great Plains
  2. 4. sun-dried brick
  3. 5. is the oldest major city in the Americas
  4. 7. the first major city in Mesoamerica
  5. 8. built of wooden poles and bark
  6. 10. A society older than the Maya
  7. 11. multistoried structures that housed many people
  8. 13. circular tents
  9. 16. a city located at 11,000 feet in the mountains of southern Peru
  10. 19. established an extensive farming society