Across
- 3. Shared by a community or group
- 4. People of a culture in the Andes Mountains of South America that arose in the 1400s C.E. and lasted until 1532
- 7. A soldier who is paid to fight for another country or group
- 10. A person through whom a god or spirit is believed to speak
- 12. A symbol or character in a hieroglyphic system of writing
- 13. A Mesoamerican people who built an empire in central Mexico that flourished from 1428 to 1519 C.E.
- 14. A type of surgery in which a hole is made in the skull
Down
- 1. A public square or other open area in a city where people can gather
- 2. farming technique in which vegetation is cut away and burned to clear land for growing crops - slash and ______ Agriculture
- 5. A raised road built across water or low ground
- 6. A gift of an animal for slaughter as a way to honor gods
- 7. The people of an important Mesoamerican civilization that lasted from about 2000 B.C.E. to 1500 C.E.
- 8. The capital city of the Aztec Empire
- 9. the region extending from modern-day Mexico through Central America
- 11. An Inca clan (group of related families), the basic unit of Inca society