Across
- 5. supreme power held by a single person
- 7. a device consisting of a rope with knotted strings of various colors attached used by the Incans for record keeping
- 8. their capital city was on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco
- 10. a state consisting of cities that govern themselves and the surrounding area independently
- 11. a type of corn
- 12. relating to or being a people who are the original, earliest known inhabitants of a region, or are their descendants
Down
- 1. a person who acts as a link between the natural and supernatural worlds
- 2. a group of families working together and sharing possessions
- 3. the Aztecs created floating _______ to grow their food
- 4. the area extending from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua in which diverse pre-Columbian civilizations flourished
- 6. an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached
- 9. a small tropical American evergreen tree; the seeds are used as a source of cocoa, chocolate, etc.
- 13. a pictograph or hieroglyphic
- 14. "rubber people"